Why Spiderman is Such a Good Dancer
For over a decade (according to Know Your Meme), Dancing Spiderman has been shuffling and swaying online. Sometimes he dances in obscurity, sometimes people pay attention. I recently noticed him on the front page of reddit, which means a lot of people were watching him again, in the animated GIF below. Warning: you’re about to waste some time, but it’ll (eventually) be in the interest of understanding the neuroscience of rhythm. This version of Dancing Spiderman hails from a post by panda_baker on reddit. If he’s not moving above, click here for another version of the image. And it’s true. …JeanPolfus let me know about this RadioLab article where they actually took on the question of why Spiderman dances so well to every song. Long story short, the answer I pulled out of my butt is fairly correct, though incomplete.