Benjamin Thompson

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746 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 2 Sep

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Me too.

Do you know what it's my feet for me to do?

My finger's so ticklish.

Anyway, there is a reason for this.

And this is a story in Nature that I read about and it's based on a paper in Nature, Human Behaviour.

And it's all about how certain types of ticklishness, I suppose, seem to be a consistent thing around the world.

I have learnt from reading this article there are different types of

Of tickling.

Okay.

Now, this article is talking about gargalesis.

Okay, now this is the type of tickling that's associated with play, like being tickled.

If someone comes and tickles you, that's gargalesisis, right?

So that elicits laughter and sometimes squirming, all the rest of it.

This is not knismesis.

Now that's like if someone brushes a feather against you, that kind of you feel it's like a ticklish in your skin, but it doesn't make you laugh.

Now the latter has a

And you can think of a lot of diseases and skin conditions that result in itching.

And so researchers have looked at that.

Gargalesis then.

The fun one is not well understood, and folk have written about it since antiquity.

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