(I had problems with the links when I posted this as a comment to Raven's post, so here's a new post:)
I was also struck by this in reading the text. I did a Google Scholar search on "illusory contours" for papers published this year and I got 41 hits. Most of the papers are from neuroscience journals -- here's one short paper on it.
Even now, researchers don't seem to agree on the mechanisms behind it. Here's another site that mentions 8 different hypotheses that have been proposed to explain it.
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