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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.

— Roger Shepard with L.A. Cooper (1984)

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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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