# Roger Shepard

> Roger Newland Shepard was an American cognitive scientist and author of the "universal law of generalization". He was considered a father of research on spatial relations. He studied mental rotation, and was an inventor of non-metric multidimensional scaling, a method for representing certain kinds of statistical data in a graphical form that can be comprehended by humans. The optical illusion called Shepard tables and the auditory illusion called Shepard tones are named for him.

*American psychologist (1929–2022)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/roger-shepard

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1929-01-30
- **Died:** 2022-05-30
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 46.6 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 11.6 / 100
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- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Sources
- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roger_Shepard)
- [روجر شيبرد](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AF)
- [روجر شيبرد](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AF)
- [Roger N. Shepard](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_N._Shepard)
- [Roger Shepard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Shepard)
- [راجر شپرد](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%AF)
- [Roger Shepard](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Shepard)
- [ロジャー・シェパード](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89)
- [로저 셰퍼드](https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A1%9C%EC%A0%80_%EC%85%B0%ED%8D%BC%EB%93%9C)
- [Roger Shepard](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Shepard)
- [Шепард, Роджер](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80)
- [Роджер Шепард](https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4)
- [罗格·谢泼德](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BD%97%E6%A0%BC%C2%B7%E8%B0%A2%E6%B3%BC%E5%BE%B7)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q932756)

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