Citations:knismesis


 * 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.
 * 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 first type is knismesis referring to feather-like (light) type of tickling. It is elicited by a light touch or by a light electrical current at almost any part of the body.
 * 2009 E. Bruce Goldstein, Encyclopedia of Perception, SAGE, p510
 * The first type, called knismesis or light tickle, is the well-known sensation elicited by slow movement of a light object, such as a feather, across the skin.
 * 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.