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Roger Newland Shepard est un scientifique spécialisé en psychologie cognitive. Un bon nombre de ses recherches ont été effectuées dans le domaine des processus mentaux .

Il est l'auteur de Toward a Universal Law of Generalization for Psychological Science. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. janvier 1929
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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.”

L.A. Cooper and R.N. Shepard (1984). "Turning something over in the mind." Scientific American 251(6), 106-114; p. 114.
Contexte: In spite of some unresolved issues, the close match we have found between mental rotation and their counterparts in the physical world leads inevitably to speculations about the functions and origin of human spatial imagination. It may not be premature to propose that spatial imagination has evolved as a reflection of the physics and geometry of the external world. The rules that govern structures and motions in the physical world may, over evolutionary history, have been incorporated into human perceptual machinery, giving rise to demonstrable correspondences between mental imagery and its physical analogues.