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The Science Behind Tickling

You might hate being tickled or you might love it, but do you know what it actually is? And did you know that there are two types of tickling? Regular Weekend Breakfast host Jess Klajman had a chat to Professor Mark Williams from Macquarie University’s Department of Cognitive Science about what on earth is happening when someone when someone tickles us. Weirdly, it turns out that even robots can tickle us, but we can’t tickle ourselves.

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