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Roger Newland Shepard (born January 30, 1929 in Palo Alto, California) is a cognitive scientist and author of the Universal Law of Generalization (1987). He is considered a father of research on spatial relations.
Shepard obtained his Ph.D. in psychology at Yale University in 1955 under Carl Hovland, and completed post-doctoral training with George Armitage Miller at Harvard. Subsequent to this, Shepard was at Bell Labs and then a professor at Harvard before joining the faculty at Stanford University. In 1995, Shepard received the National Medal of Science for his contributions in the field of cognitive science. In 2006, he also won the Rumelhart Prize. Shepard is Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor Emeritus of Social Science at Stanford University.
His students include [[Lynn Cooper], Leda Cosmides, Rob Fish, Jennifer Freyd, Carol Krumhansl, Daniel Levitin, Geoffrey Miller and Josh Tenenbaum.[1]
Shepard is one of the founders of the Kira Institute.
See also[]
- Barber's pole
- Center for Evolutionary Psychology
- Deutsch tritone paradox
- Mental rotation
- Mental image
- Shepard tone
References[]
External links[]
- Biography at rr0.org (in french)
- Stanford faculty
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