Giggling Rats Provide Insights Into Why Humans Are Ticklish

Shariqua Ahmed
Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:50:38 -0800

For many of us, the mere thought of wiggling fingers approaching our rib cage or moving towards our underarms is enough to elicit squeals of laughter and giggles. However, while we all know that tickling makes us happy, Michael Brecht, a professor at Berlin’s Humboldt University, says, it is “one of the most poorly understood forms of touch.”