Roger Shepard
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican psychologist (1929-2022)
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.
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Bird with earthworm: Explaining stimulus generalization, Shepard gives the example of bird that has experience of one previous worm generalizing to decide if another worm is edible.
Mental rotation task. Cube assemblages based on test drawings used by Shepard and Metzler. Two-dimensional figures similar to those used in work by Shepard and Cooper.
Shepard tables illusion: The two "tabletops" are identical parallelogramsAwards 11
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David H. HubelAlso won George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience
Eugenie ScottAlso won honorary doctor of Rutgers University
Alfred GruentherAlso won honorary doctor of Harvard UniversityMargaret W. RossiterAlso won Wilbur Cross Medal
James McClellandAlso won APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology
Floyd LounsburyAlso won Wilbur Cross MedalAbout this person
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.
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