Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? : A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain / Timothy Verstynen, Bradley Voytek.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (272 p.) : 16 line illusContent type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780691157283
  • 9781400851928
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 001.944 23
LOC classification:
  • QP355.2 .V47 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- PRELUDE. SACRIFICES NOT MADE IN VAIN -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. GRAY'S (UNDEAD) ANATOMY -- 2. DO ZOMBIES DREAM OF UNDEAD SHEEP? -- 3. THE NEURAL CORRELATES OF LUMBERING -- 4. HUNGRY, ANGRY, AND STUPID IS NO WAY TO GO THROUGH UNLIFE -- 5. THERE'S NO CRYING IN THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE! -- 6. TONGUE-TIED AND TWISTED -- 7. DISENGAGEMENT DEFICIT OF THE DEAD -- 8. WHOSE UNDEAD FACE IS THIS, ANYWAY? -- 9. HOW AM I NOT MYSELF? -- 10. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE UNDEAD MIND -- 11. FIGHTING THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE . . . WITH SCIENCE! -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX
Summary: Even if you've never seen a zombie movie or television show, you could identify an undead ghoul if you saw one. With their endless wandering, lumbering gait, insatiable hunger, antisocial behavior, and apparently memory-less existence, zombies are the walking nightmares of our deepest fears. What do these characteristic behaviors reveal about the inner workings of the zombie mind? Could we diagnose zombism as a neurological condition by studying their behavior? In Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?, neuroscientists and zombie enthusiasts Timothy Verstynen and Bradley Voytek apply their neuro-know-how to dissect the puzzle of what has happened to the zombie brain to make the undead act differently than their human prey.Combining tongue-in-cheek analysis with modern neuroscientific principles, Verstynen and Voytek show how zombism can be understood in terms of current knowledge regarding how the brain works. In each chapter, the authors draw on zombie popular culture and identify a characteristic zombie behavior that can be explained using neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and brain-behavior relationships. Through this exploration they shed light on fundamental neuroscientific questions such as: How does the brain function during sleeping and waking? What neural systems control movement? What is the nature of sensory perception?Walking an ingenious line between seriousness and satire, Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? leverages the popularity of zombie culture in order to give readers a solid foundation in neuroscience.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781400851928

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- PRELUDE. SACRIFICES NOT MADE IN VAIN -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. GRAY'S (UNDEAD) ANATOMY -- 2. DO ZOMBIES DREAM OF UNDEAD SHEEP? -- 3. THE NEURAL CORRELATES OF LUMBERING -- 4. HUNGRY, ANGRY, AND STUPID IS NO WAY TO GO THROUGH UNLIFE -- 5. THERE'S NO CRYING IN THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE! -- 6. TONGUE-TIED AND TWISTED -- 7. DISENGAGEMENT DEFICIT OF THE DEAD -- 8. WHOSE UNDEAD FACE IS THIS, ANYWAY? -- 9. HOW AM I NOT MYSELF? -- 10. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE UNDEAD MIND -- 11. FIGHTING THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE . . . WITH SCIENCE! -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

Even if you've never seen a zombie movie or television show, you could identify an undead ghoul if you saw one. With their endless wandering, lumbering gait, insatiable hunger, antisocial behavior, and apparently memory-less existence, zombies are the walking nightmares of our deepest fears. What do these characteristic behaviors reveal about the inner workings of the zombie mind? Could we diagnose zombism as a neurological condition by studying their behavior? In Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?, neuroscientists and zombie enthusiasts Timothy Verstynen and Bradley Voytek apply their neuro-know-how to dissect the puzzle of what has happened to the zombie brain to make the undead act differently than their human prey.Combining tongue-in-cheek analysis with modern neuroscientific principles, Verstynen and Voytek show how zombism can be understood in terms of current knowledge regarding how the brain works. In each chapter, the authors draw on zombie popular culture and identify a characteristic zombie behavior that can be explained using neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and brain-behavior relationships. Through this exploration they shed light on fundamental neuroscientific questions such as: How does the brain function during sleeping and waking? What neural systems control movement? What is the nature of sensory perception?Walking an ingenious line between seriousness and satire, Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? leverages the popularity of zombie culture in order to give readers a solid foundation in neuroscience.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)