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The Neuroscience of Illusions and Dictionaries
Scientific American is running a pair of stories about what words and illusions can tell us about the brain. Mark Changizi of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is interviewed about his research into the relationship between the mechanisms of the brain and the evolution of language. The second article contains a slide-show of various illusions and why the brain interprets them as it does.
Because you touch yourself at night.
Hang on, do you weigh less than a duck.
FTA: across different languages most characters take three strokes to write out. That's because, he says, three is the highest quantity a person's brain can perceive without resorting to counting.
The pips on my six-sided die say otherwise.