Edges and corners

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A note for Lesson no. 3, "Little Brains Wire Themselves to Their World," in Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett.
Some context from page 48–50 is:

When you expose her to boxes and buildings, you’re training her visual system to see edges and corners.

See Müller-Lyer illusion (from the webnotes for How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain), and the references therein.