Roger Shepard Quotes

1929–2022 United States

Roger Newland Shepard (January 30, 1929 – May 30, 2022) was a cognitive scientist and author of the Universal Law of Generalization (1987). He is considered a father of research on spatial relations.

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Also known as: Roger N. Shepard

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It may not be premature to propose that spatial imagination has evolved as a reflection of the physics and geometry of the external world.

with L.A. Cooper (1984)

The system of constraints that governs the projections and transformations of... bodies in space must long ago have become internalized as a powerful, though largely unconscious, part of our perceptual machinery.

We generalize from one situation to another not because we cannot tell the difference between the two situations but because we judge that they are likely to belong to a set of situations having the same consequence.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Roger Shepard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.