Toward a universal law of generalization for psychological science

RN Shepard - Science, 1987 - science.org
A psychological space is established for any set of stimuli by determining metric distances
between the stimuli such that the probability that a response learned to any stimulus will …

Perceptual-cognitive universals as reflections of the world

RN Shepard - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1994 - Springer
The universality, invariance, and elegance of principles governing the universe may be
reflected in principles of the minds that have evolved in that universe—provided that the …

Contributions of principles of visual cognitive science to AAC system display design

KM Wilkinson, V Jagaroo - Augmentative and Alternative …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Beukelman (1991) introduced the concept of the magic versus the cost of communicative
competence in AAC. Fundamentally, this refers to the relative effort that must be exerted (the …

[KSIĄŻKA][B] Visual object processing: A cognitive neuropsychological approach

GW Humphreys, MJ Riddoch - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Originally published in 1987, this book, attempted to bring together work by researchers
concerned with the functional and neurological mechanisms underlying visual object …

Scene-based and viewer-centered representations for comparing shapes

GE Hinton, LM Parsons - Cognition, 1988 - Elsevier
Five studies examined the use of scene-based and viewer-centered (ie, head-or retina-
based) representations for comparing shapes at different orientations. Two objects that …

Psychologically simple motions as geodesic paths I. Asymmetric objects

EH Carlton, RN Shepard - Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 1990 - Elsevier
There are infinitely many ways in which an object might rigidly move between any two
positions in space. Experiments on real, apparent, and imagined motion indicate, however …

Comparison of cube rotations around axes inclined relative to the environment or to the cube.

MM Shiffrar, RN Shepard - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 1991 - psycnet.apa.org
Observers judged whether 2 successive computer-displayed rotations of a cube were the
same or different. With respect to the observers, each rotation was about a vertical axis (Y), a …

Process generalization and the prediction of performance on mental imagery tasks

B Wallace, BG Hofelich - Memory & Cognition, 1992 - Springer
Abstract Kosslyn (1980, 1983) theorized that performance measures on imagery tasks may
vary as a function of the existence of independent processes in imaging ability. Tue present …

How a cognitive psychologist came to seek universal laws

RN Shepard - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2004 - Springer
Myearly fascination with geometry and physics and, later, with perception and imagination
inspired a hope that fundamental phenomena of psychology, like those of physics, might …

Bias towards regular configuration in 2D pointing

H Yang, X Xu - Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Extending Fitts' law to more than one dimension has been recognized as having important
implications for HCI. In spite of the progress made over the years, however, it is still far from …