22 Apr 2025

Shower Thoughts: Why are we ticklish?

From Nights, 9:35 pm on 22 April 2025

Why are some of us more ticklish than others, in different places? And why do some people hate being tickled?

Internationally renowned professor of cognitive neuroscience Dr Mark Williams joins Emile Donovan to explain.

Dog kissing laughing girl on patio. (Photo by CAIA IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / NEW / Science Photo Library via AFP)

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