Benjamin Thompson

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

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And we know that humans aren't the only ticklish animal.

Other great apes tickle each other.

Uh rats and mere cats apparently respond to human tickling, which suggests that this sensation has been preserved across evolution.

And there's a link in the article to a video of a gorilla being tickled.

This gorilla is having

the time it's life, I'll tell you what.

But what is going on is a question that researchers have had and that's what they're trying to move towards solving with this research.

Yeah, and there have been a few ideas as to why it exists, which we'll get to in a bit.

But to test what might be going on, some researchers recruited four hundred and forty-eight participants from three distinct cultural backgrounds.

We've got Dutch, Greek, and Chinese.

Now each person then completed a survey about their experiences and perceptions of tickling.

And then they went on to a computer and they coloured in areas of

of a body model to create maps of where they were ticklish.

Repeating this exercise for other body sensations like pain or pleasurable touch.

Mm-hmm.

So what they've made in this research, these two researchers, is a high resolution tickle map.

Yep.

Yep, belly, yep.

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