Roger Shepard
Roger Newland Shepard (January 30, 1929 – May 30, 2022) 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.
Roger Shepard | |
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Shepard at the ASU SciAPP conference in March 2019 | |
| Born | Roger Newland Shepard January 30, 1929 Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Died | May 30, 2022 (aged 93) Tucson, Arizona, U.S. |
| Occupation | cognitive scientist |
| Notable work | Shepard elephant, Shepard tones |
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