Anxiety affects walking direction

Anxiety affects walking direction

FPJ BureauUpdated: Friday, May 31, 2019, 06:52 PM IST
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Washington DC : A new research has found that people, who experience anxiety and inhibition, have more activity in the right side of their brain which makes them to walk in a leftward trajectory, according to IANS.

Lead researcher Dr. Mario Weick at the University of Kent has for the first time linked the activation of the brain’s two hemispheres with lateral shifts in people’s walking trajectories. In a study aimed at establishing why individuals display a tendency to allocate attention unequally across space, people were blindfolded and asked to walk in a straight line across a room towards a previously seen target.

The researchers found evidence that blindfolded individuals who displayed inhibition or anxiety were prone to walk to the left, indicating greater activation in the right hemisphere of the brain. The research indicated that the brain’s two hemispheres are associated with different motivational systems. These relate on the right side to inhibition and on the left to approach.

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