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Daily Digest Archive for July 31, 2003

Q: (Initially posted on July 17, 2003) FROM MENTEE SANNA R. IN VA
What causes us to be ticklish? If we are brushed with a feather, why do you feel it until you itch it?

July 31, 2003
A: FROM MODERATOR SARAH SHIRK IN IL
This sounds like a question for Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, a neuroscientist at London's Institute of Neurology. Her research interest is . . . is you guessed it TICKLING and how the brain processes it. Find out more in her article in Nature Neuroscience or go to http://www.wonderquest.com/Tickling.htm.




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