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Reification

Reification is the constructive, or generative aspect of perception as seen in these Gestalt illusions. It is clear that the visual experience contains more explicit volumetric spatial information than the retinal stimulus on which it is based.

Note that every point on every illusory surface is experienced at a specific depth and surface orientation, and all of those points are experienced as a spatial continuum.
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