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Today, while on the phone with a friend of mine, he strangely told me that he was not ticklish. I told him that one cannot tickle himself. I wanted to write this article because of the incident in this talk. Why can't we tickle ourselves?
Let's grab a feather and tickle the soles of our feet to reveal one of the greatest mysteries of the human brain. Then let's ask someone else to do the same. A question arises: In the first, our facial expressions do not change, but in the second, how do we become rigid with both pleasure and pain, this situation is really thought-provoking.
As a result of my research, Sarah Jayne Blakemore from the University of London is one of the first scientists to examine this decision made by the brain in a very short time between movements originating from ourselves and movements originating from outside. Brain scans were taken while subjects' palms were being tickled by others and doing so themselves. Blakemore noticed that when we move our limbs, the cerebellum can make predictions about these movements, and a second signal is sent to the back of activity in the somatosensory cortex, where tactile sensations are processed. As a result, when we tickle ourselves, we do not feel sensations as intensely as when tickled by others, we remain calm.