2017-04-20

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Our reaction to be tickled may be nature's way of encouraging self defence training from an early age.

BrainCraft was created by Vanessa Hill (@nessyhill) and is brought to you by PBS Digital Studios. Talking psychology, neuroscience & why we act the way we do.

A big thank you to Anna from Gross Science, Kelsey from Infinite Series and Jacklyn from SciJoy for being tickled for this episode.

And thanks to Deep Look for their epic mosquito shot: https://youtu.be/rD8SmacBUcU

Hosted, Animated and Produced by Vanessa Hill 🤺

Written by Teagan Wall https://twitter.com/TeagWall

References 🗂

European fMRI study:

Wattendorf, E., Westermann, B., Fiedler, K., Kaza, E., Lotze, M., & Celio, M. R. (2013). Exploration of the neural correlates of ticklish laughter by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Cerebral Cortex, 23(6), 1280-1289. https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/cercor/bhs094

Tickling Rats: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.physbeh.2012.05.017

‘‘Laughing’’ rats and the evolutionary antecedents of human joy: http://caspar.bgsu.edu/~courses/Reading/Papers/2003PanBur.pdf

YouTube clips 💻

Chimpanzee: https://youtu.be/sd_C42ULpOE

Penguin: https://youtu.be/R7dYuD0yg9Q

Owl: https://youtu.be/Ajc6xr6mNeY

Meerkat: https://youtu.be/880RAXPoBQ8