Whether it's your armpits, ribs or soles of your feet, the experience of ticklishness is common to almost every person on ...
It is a well-known fact that you can't tickle yourself. Now researchers from the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin have found out why. The study, published in the journal ...
NIJMEGEN, Netherlands — Ever try to tickle yourself? Go ahead, stroke your own armpit or foot sole right now. Feel absolutely nothing? That’s because your brain is playing a fascinating trick on you — ...
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We still don’t know how tickling works. More serious research is needed, say scientists
Scientists have developed a new method to investigate the long-standing mystery of how tickling works, an advance that could have big implications for our understanding of brain development. Humans ...
Inside a Berlin neuroscience lab one day last year, Subject 1 sat on a chair with their arms up and their bare toes pointed down. Hiding behind them, with full access to the soles of their feet, was ...
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