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1 Tickling and the Brain 1 By Dr. Silvia Helena Cardoso Please, see comments on each slide

2 Tickling Fascinating instance of the Congenitally blind childNormalchild Chimpanzee Connection between playfulness, laughter and social bonding Almost always produces laughter Tickling and laughter evolved in part to help us relate to others

3 Skin Sensory cortex Axon Spinal cord Anterior Spinothalamic Tract Thalamus Brain Sensory ganglion Nerve cell Touch receptors Anatomy of Tickling Tickling stimulates touch receptors in the skin. These receptors, when stimulated carry information in sensory neurons that goes to the spinal cord. Then this information travels up to the sensory cortex via the thalamus. The sensory cortex is involved in processing information from the skin. (Area that registers touch)

4 The big enigma of We do not laugh when we tickle ourselves, only when other people tickle us.

5 Why is it impossible to tickle ourselves?

6 Predicts the sensory consequences of movements - supplying the brain with information that reduces the sensation of touch information. Cerebellum Brain region that helps to control voluntary movement and balance

7 Charles Darwin “For tickling to be effective, you must not know the precise point of stimulation in advance”

8 Cerebellum Somatosensory cortex precise information When you try to tickle yourself, your cerebellum sends to your somatosensory cortex precise information on the position of the tickling target and therefore what sensation to expect...

9 Robotic arm Subject tickling himself. He couldn’t make himself laugh. Experiment using robotic arms to tickle people. It is as effective as real people in provoking laughter.

10 Touch’s areafMRI fMRI detected more neuronal activity in somatosensory cortex, when people were tickled than when they tickled themselves. To compare brain activity when a subject's hand was tickled by an experimenter or by himself. Somatosensory cortex helps interpret external stimuli registered by nerve endings that sense touch. Somatosensory cortex Part of the brain that registers touch