Roger Shepard
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Roger Newland Shepard (born January 30, 1929 in Palo Alto, California) is a cognitive scientist and author of Toward a Universal Law of Generalization for Psychological Science. He is seen as the father of the research on spatial relations.
Shepard obtained his Ph.D. in psychology at Yale University in 1955. In 1995, Shepard received 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. One of his students was Leda Cosmides.
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- Stanford faculty
- Research Biography of Roger Shepard
- University of California Hitchcock Lectures
- Biography at rr0.org (in french)
