# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-shepard
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:55:35.404Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-shepard"
name: "Roger Shepard"
slug: "roger-shepard"
description: "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."
tagline: "American psychologist (1929–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Psychologist_Roger_Shepard_March_2019_ASU_SciAPP_conference.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1929-01-30"
deathDate: "2022-05-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.2519167579408543
  historical:           11.56702933333333
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump