Now, let's talk about something deeply philosophical - tickling; more specifically, why you can tickle someone else, but you can't tickle yourself. JAKOB HOHWY: It's a very basic kind of phenomenon ...

How come you can't tickle yourself? And why can some people handle tickling perfectly fine while others scream their heads off? Neuroscientists argue that we should take tickle research more seriously ...

It's darn near impossible to tickle yourself. Kids know this. Adults who act like kids know this. And so do the creators of certain Sesame Street toys that tend to inspire fist-fights between ...

The life of a lab rat is not usually pleasant. They are shocked, drugged, sliced, starved and crippled in the name of furthering scientific understanding, but one group of German rats have had the ...

Scientists have developed a new method to investigate the long-standing mystery of how tickling works, an advance that could have big implications for our understanding of brain development. Humans ...

There's nothing quite like that yelp of laughter you emit when being tickled. Now, experts have confirmed that shrieks induced by tickling really do sound recognisably different to other types of ...

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, a research fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, explains. The answer lies at the back of the brain in an area called the cerebellum, ...

It's darn near impossible to tickle yourself, and the mechanics behind the non-phenomenon of self-tickling are pretty straightforward: Your subconscious mind is always one step ahead of you. Your ...