The route that I took on the way towards my study looking at the effects of meditation training on alpha rhythms in somatosensory cortex has been circuitous.

FORBES: Catherine Kerr on the Science of Meditation

As expected, they found increased activity in the somatosensory cortex (the part of the brain responsible for the sensation of touch) when a volunteer was tickled either by a member of the team, or by himself.

ECONOMIST: Neuroscience: Tickled curiosity | The

These include the frontal cortex (where decisions are made), the motor cortex (which controls muscle activity), the somatosensory cortex (where the sense of touch is located) and the part of the parietal cortex that regulates kinaesthesia (the sense of bodily motion, which is built up from signals from the muscles and the vestibular systems of the ears).

ECONOMIST: Bionics (I)