Tickle perception as micro-experience of pleasure: its phenomenology on different areas of the body and relation to cerebral dominance.
We examined the tickle sensitivity of 46 female psychology students with reference to different areas of the body and cerebral dominance. Analysis indicated a significant difference between two halves of the body for latency and not for duration. The dimensional approach, as we have suggested for other research on cerebral dominance, singled out for both latency and duration of tickle three groups of dominance: right, left, and nondominant subjects.
D000328:Adult; D002610:Cheek / Q000502:physiology; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005260:Female; D005542:Forearm / Q000502:physiology; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D009333:Neck / Q000502:physiology; D011930:Reaction Time; D012879:Skin Physiological Phenomena; D013909:Thorax / Q000502:physiology; D013997:Time Factors; D014110:Touch / Q000502:physiology*