Roger Shepard
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title:
Roger Shepard
text:
Roger Newland Shepard was an American cognitive scientist and author of the "universal law of generalization" (1987). 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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American psychologist (1929–2020)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Shepard
date created:
2005-10-12T23:53:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T13:37:41Z
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