Some artists create paintings wherein the figure and the background relations are deliberately reversible and ambiguous. Such ambiguity illustrates which important general point about human perception?
A) Adaptation to steady or repeated stimulation happens in almost all of the senses.
B) Only a few basic perceptual abilities are inborn.
C) Different stimuli can be parsed in the same way.
D) The same stimuli can be parsed in more than one way.

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The fact that some artists create paintings with reversible and ambiguous figures and backgrounds shows that human perception can parse the same stimuli in more than one way. This relates to the concept of perceptual ambiguity, where a single stimulus can be interpreted in different ways by the human brain.

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