Roger Shepard
Cognitive psychologist known for developing multidimensional scaling and proposing a universal exponential law of generalization, with influential work on mental rotation and representations of similarity.
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Apr 1, 2026 • 1h 17min
Seeking Universal Laws: Roger Shepard
Roger Shepard, pioneering cognitive psychologist who developed multidimensional scaling and studied mental rotation. He talks about reconstructing psychological spaces, the birth of multidimensional scaling, the mental rotation discovery, debates on similarity representations, and his search for universal laws of generalization.
