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  1. He was 93. Roger Shepard, 1929-2022 (Image credit: L.A. Cicero) Awarded the National Medal of Science in 1995, Shepard conducted pioneering research on how the mind creates internal ...

  2. Shepard elephant, Shepard tones. Roger Newland Shepard (January 30, 1929 – May 30, 2022 [1]) 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 ...

  3. May 26, 2024 · Roger Shepard (born January 30, 1929, Palo Alto, California, U.S.—died May 30, 2022, Tucson, Arizona) was an American psychologist and cognitive scientist known for his work in multidimensional scaling, the use of spatial models to show similarities and dissimilarities between data. He received a Ph.D. from Yale University and later worked at ...

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  4. Roger Shepard. September 2022. Reading time 6 min. By Kali Shiloh. One morning in 1974, as Roger Shepard was not quite fully awake, a curious image came into his mind. It was an optical illusion of an elephant with four offset feet and five legs that disappeared into negative space. He began drawing and redrawing what he’d seen.

  5. Mercury-Redstone 3. / 27.23; -75.88. Mercury-Redstone 3, or Freedom 7, was the first United States human spaceflight, on May 5, 1961, piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard. It was the first crewed flight of Project Mercury. The project had the ultimate objective of putting an astronaut into orbit around the Earth and returning him safely.

  6. Nov 26, 2022 · Sea Shepherd's original modus operandi was infused in the now ubiquitous logo of Watson's design — a spin on the Jolly Roger — with a shepherd's crook and Neptune's trident crossed beneath a ...

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  8. Jan 30, 2024 · Roger Shepard, a cognitive scientist, was born Jan. 30, 1929, in Palo Alto. He majored in psychology at Stanford, where his father was a professor, earned his PhD in psychology from Yale, then worked for some years at Bell Labs, before returning to Stanford as a professor, where he spent his career. Shepard started out interested in the problem ...

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