Healthy human beings can’t tickle themselves. This is because they anticipate the sensation and reduce their touch perception accordingly. Reducing the perception of completely predictable sensations allows the brain to focus on crucial changes in the environment not produced by the person’s own actions. A person who tries to tickle himself and is simultaneously tickled by another person will have a heightened sense of the other person’s touch compared to his own. Healthy people also can’t mistake their own voice as coming from another person. Schizophrenics, however, may hear their own voices and, having not anticipated the sounds, not recognize the voice as their own.
Which of the following statements can be correctly inferred from the passage above?
(A) Human beings can’t tickle themselves because they anticipate the sensation.
(B) Further research in this area may lead to a better understanding of why certain people are more susceptible to tickling.
(C) A healthy human hearing a tape of her own voice won’t recognize the voice because she won’t anticipate the sounds.
(D) Tickling yourself as someone else is tickling you will reduce your sensory perceptions and cause you not to react to the tickling.
(E) Healthy humans constantly anticipate the sound of their own voice and differentiate it from other voices.