From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that reveals about our brains ...

A foot-tickling device that induces “uncontrolled laughter” has been created by scientists with the hope that it can help wearers to relieve stress. The device – named TickleFoot – is inserted as an ...

Everyone wants to live a stress-free life, but everyday life is stressful. The 'tickling insole' developed by a New Zealand research team is strange at first glance, but it is a device that ...

The days of brandishing your mobile phone to find your way around could soon be over. A new invention to come out of Massachusetts can point you in the right direction by simply tickling your feet.

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 ...

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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 ...

Anina Rich receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Mark Williams receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Research Council. Hi Magali.

People vary in how sensitive they are to tickling. Some people are only ticklish sometimes, while others are not ticklish at all. Tickling can be a fun game, a temporary annoyance, or a deeply ...