Citations:gargalesis


 * 1897 G. Stanley Hall & Arthur Alliń, "The Psychology of Tickling, Laughing, and the Comic," The American Journal of Psychology, 9(1) (Oct., 1897), pp. 1-41
 * Pending a better nomenclature we suggest for the former the term knismesis and for the latter the term gargalesis, with the adjectives knismic and gargalic, hyperknismesis and hyper-gargalesis for excess, etc.
 * 1999 Christine R. Harris & Nicholas Christenfeld, "Can a machine tickle?," Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 6(3) pp. 504-510
 * One can readily elicit knismesis in oneself (this is easily demonstrated by dragging a fingernail lightly over one’s skin). However, one cannot produce gargalesis in oneself; the present investigation focuses on this peculiar fact.
 * 1999 Christine R. Harris, "The Mystery of Ticklish Laughter," American Scientist, 87(4) (July-August 1999), p344
 * Gargalesis, the heavy tickle associated with play and laughter and seemingly with pleasure, may be limited to the primates, but not solely to human beings.
 * 2009 August 18-21, Alena Neviarouskaya, Dzmitry Tsetserukou, Helmut Prendinger, Naoki Kawakami, Susumu Tachi & Mitsuru Ishizuka, "Emerging System for Affectively Charged Interpersonal Communication," ICROS-SICE International Joint Conference 2009, p3380
 * The second type of tickle called gargalesis is evoked by a heavier touch to particular areas of the body such as armpits or ribs. Such kind of stimuli usually results in laugher and squirming.
 * 2009 E. Bruce Goldstein, Encyclopedia of Perception, SAGE, p510
 * The second type of tickle, gargalesis or heavy tickle, is the familiar sensation frequently associated with laughter that is evoked usually by playful (but sometimes cruel) and more forceful stimulation of the body.
 * 2009 David A. Leavens "Animal Communication: Laughter Is the Shortest Distance between Two Apes," Current Biology, 19(3), R511-3
 * Physiologists distinguish two kinds of tickle: knismesis, the sensation produced by a light caress, as with a feather or the sensation of a spider walking on one’s skin; and gargalesis, the exquisitely intense, often pleasurable sensation in response to hard, rhythmic probing.