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 spatial relations and obtained his Ph.D. in psychology at Yale University in 1955 where he was a member of Skull and Bones society. is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Downtown Palo Alto Palo Alto is a city in Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, USA. Palo Alto is located at the northern end of the Silicon Valley, and is home to Stanford University (which is technically located in an adjacent area — Stanford, California... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Cognitive science is usually defined as the scientific study either of mind or of intelligence (e. ... “Yale” redirects here. ... For the pirate flag, see Jolly Roger. ...

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. National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor given by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics. ... The The David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition is an award similar to the Turing Award, except it is specific to Cognitive Science, and the award has only been running since 2001. ... Calvin Coolidge Ray Lyman Wilbur Ray Lyman Wilbur (April 13, 1875–June 26, 1949) was a medical doctor, the 3rd President of Stanford University, and the 31st United States Secretary of the Interior. ... A professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study human aspects of the world. ... “Stanford” redirects here. ...

See also

• Center for Evolutionary Psychology
• Mental rotation
• Mental image
• Shepard tone

Center for Evolutionary Psychology (CEP) is a research center co-founded and co-directed by John Tooby and Leda Cosmides and is affiliated to the University of California, Santa Barbara. ... Mental rotation is the ability to rotate mental representations of two dimensional and three dimensional objects. ... A mental image is an experience that significantly resembles the experience of perceiving some object, event, or scene, but that occurs when the relevant object, event, or scene is not actually present to the senses (McKellar, 1957; Richardson,1969; Finke, 1989; Thomas, 2003). ... Figure 1: Shepard tones forming a Shepard scale, illustrated in a sequencer A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. ...

External links

• Biography at rr0.org (in french)
• Stanford faculty