17 Facts About Roger Shepard

Roger Newland Shepard was an American cognitive scientist and author of the "universal law of generalization".

Roger Shepard was considered a father of research on spatial relations.

Roger Shepard 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.

Roger Shepard was born January 30,1929, in Palo Alto, California.

Roger Shepard's father was a professor of materials science at Stanford.

Roger Shepard attended Stanford as an undergraduate, eventually majoring in psychology and graduating in 1951.

Subsequent to this, Roger Shepard was at Bell Labs and then a professor at Harvard before joining the faculty at Stanford University.

Roger Shepard was Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor Emeritus of Social Science at Stanford University.

Roger Shepard's students include Lynn Cooper, Leda Cosmides, Rob Fish, Jennifer Freyd, George Furnas, Carol L Krumhansl, Daniel Levitin, Michael McBeath, and Geoffrey Miller.

In 1997, Roger Shepard was one of the founders of the Kira Institute.

Roger Shepard began researching mechanisms of generalization while he was still a graduate student at Yale:.

Roger Shepard used geometric and spatial metaphors to map a psychological space where "distances" between different stimuli were larger or smaller depending on whether the stimuli were, respectively, less or more similar.

In 1958, Roger Shepard took a job at Bell Labs, whose computer facilities made it possible for him to expand earlier work on generalization.

Roger Shepard transformed a compelling and familiar experience into an experimentally tractable problem by injecting it into a problem-task that admits of a correct and incorrect answer.

In 1990, Roger Shepard published a collection of his drawings called Mind Sights: Original visual illusions, ambiguities, and other anomalies, with a commentary on the play of mind in perception and art.

Roger Shepard is noted for his invention of the musical illusion known as Roger Shepard tones.

Roger Shepard was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977 and to the American Philosophical Society in 1999.