Thrilled to see our paper @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the brilliant (Bsky-less) PhD student Ziliang Xiong from @erc.europa.eu project #TicklishHuman!
We asked:
-Is human ticklishness shared across cultures?
-Can we explain where on the body we are ticklish?
🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We asked:
-Is human ticklishness shared across cultures?
-Can we explain where on the body we are ticklish?
🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Human ticklishness is a widespread, culturally shared and bodily organized sensory experience - Nature Human Behaviour
Ticklishness is a familiar but poorly understood experience. Xiong and Kilteni show that ticklishness is culturally shared and follows a distinct bodily topography. They evaluate different theories on...
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August 12, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Thrilled to see our paper @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the brilliant (Bsky-less) PhD student Ziliang Xiong from @erc.europa.eu project #TicklishHuman!
We asked:
-Is human ticklishness shared across cultures?
-Can we explain where on the body we are ticklish?
🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We asked:
-Is human ticklishness shared across cultures?
-Can we explain where on the body we are ticklish?
🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...