00:00 — Introduction
00:34 — The Memo System
01:50 — The Tickle Robot
02:52 — The Exception
04:27 — The Giggling Rats
06:49 — Takeaway
06:57 — Wrap Up
Sources:
- Why can't you tickle yourself? (NeuroReport (Blakemore et al., 2000)): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10943682/
- Individuals with pronounced schizotypal traits are particularly successful in tickling themselves (Consciousness and Cognition (2016)): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810016300174
- The science of tickling: why the brain won't let us tickle ourselves (Horizon Magazine): https://projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-magazine/science-tickling-why-brain-wont-let-us-tickle-ourselves
- Neural correlates of ticklishness in the rat somatosensory cortex (Science (Ishiyama & Brecht, 2016)): https://www.science.org/content/article/watch-these-ticklish-rats-laugh-and-jump-joy
- Tickle contagion in the rat somatosensory cortex (iScience (2022)): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222019915
- Why Can't a Person Tickle Himself? (Scientific American): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-cant-a-person-tickle/
- Rats, Too, Giggle When Tickled (NPR): https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/10/501447965/brain-scientists-trace-rat-ticklishness-to-play-behavior
- Tickled rats reveal brain structure that controls laughter (Science): https://www.science.org/content/article/tickled-rats-reveal-brain-structure-controls-laughter
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