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article_snippet.sent: Most of the research predicts that we cannot tickle we because we brain precisely predicts of one hand, of my hand, touching its body or touching one or another position.
article_snippet.sent: However, if this is not fully integrated because I'm doing it or if I cannot correctly predict because somebody else were to touch me; in those cases of uncertainty, very often in those cases of double touch, the response is that you feel ticklish or tickled by somebody else,' said Professor Olaf Blanke of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland who is leading the research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL).
article_snippet.sent: And one side effect of this was, instead of saying that I'm touching myself or that I'm touching with my index finger my own body; subjects reported in those scenarios where we distorted the signal that somebody else was touching somebody else. '
article_snippet.sent: And this somebody else; actually some subjects reacted very strongly and somebody else reported that not only that somebody else was touching somebody else, but somebody else was also present. '