Similar to licking your elbow or sneezing while keeping your eyes open, you're not supposed to be able to tickle yourself. While some of you are busy looking for a feather to test this theory out, ...

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 ...

When you try to tickle yourself, your brain already knows what you are going to do. Therefore, this touch neither feels strange nor does the body create any funny reaction. On the other hand, when ...

New study shows how tickling, playfulness can address key questions about the brain. About self-tickling. Some time after I started hormone therapy, I noticed I could tickle myself. The reaction ...