Roger Newland Shepard was an American cognitive scientist and author of the "universal law of generalization". He was considered a father of research on spatial relations. He studied mental rotation,
Shepard at the ASU SciAPP conference in March 2019
Bird with earthworm: Explaining stimulus generalization, Shepard gives the example of bird that has experience of one previous worm generalizing to decide if another worm is edible.
Mental rotation task. Cube assemblages based on test drawings used by Shepard and Metzler. Two-dimensional figures similar to those used in work by Shepard and Cooper.
Shepard tables illusion: The two "tabletops" are identical parallelograms
In the philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and cognitive science, a mental image is an experience that, on most occasions, significantly resembles the experience of "perceiving" some object, event, or s
Roger Shepard
…further. Shepard and Cooper also collaborated on a 1982 book (revised 1986) summarizing past work on mental rotation and other transformations of mental images. Reviewing that work in 1983, Michael Kubovy assessed its importance…
VVIQ correlations with Hippocampal CA & GC-ML-DG volumes