Question

This psychologist and Joseph Kruskal developed the technique of non-metric multidimensional scaling to help map subjective data. This psychologist (-5[1])used the example of a bird that eats one earthworm and is then presented with a slightly different earthworm to explain the notion of “psychological space” used in his universal law of generalization. Optical illusions named for this man include a figure-ground illusion involving elephant legs (-5[1])and an illusion involving two identical parallelograms that (-5[1])look like the tops of different-sized (-5[1])tables. (-5[1])The film Dunkirk prominently features another illusion (10[1])named for (-5[1])this (10[1])man, (10[1]-5[1])which is a superposition (10[1])of sine waves that is often (10[1])compared to a barber (10[1])pole because (10[1])it appears to continually ascend or descend (10[2])in pitch without actually (10[2])getting higher or lower. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, name this American (10[1])cognitive scientist who lends his name to those “tones.” ■END■ (10[5]0[6])

ANSWER: Roger Shepard [or Roger Newland Shepard; accept Shepard tones; accept Shepard tables; accept Shepard elephant]
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Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2378%0%35%114.56

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Andrew HannaVanderbilt APurdue A18-5
Joel MilesMinnesota ACornell B64-5
Walter ZhangBrown AMaryland A72-5
Matt JacksonChicago AWUSTL A78-5
Mazin OmerHarvard AToronto A79-5
Matthew SiffYale BRutgers A8610
Drake EshlemanIndiana AMIT A88-5
Steven YuanUC Berkeley BJohns Hopkins A8910
Ashish SubramanianDuke ACornell A9010
Tracy MirkinFlorida AGeorgia Tech A90-5
Gio MazzeoVirginia AWUSTL B9410
S. A. ShenoyGeorgia Tech BPenn A10010
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AChicago C10410
Alex SchmidtPenn State AIowa State A10610
Noah ChenColumbia BMichigan A11310
John MarvinChicago BOhio State A11310
Quynh PhungPurdue AVanderbilt A11710
Vincent DuNorth Carolina AColumbia A11710
Mateo Javier AcostaFlorida BImperial A121-5
John BroussardHouston AMinnesota B12110
Caleb KendrickMaryland ABrown A12710
Annabelle YangWUSTL AChicago A13710
Michał GerasimiukYale AStanford A13710
Isak JatoiSouth Carolina AIllinois A1370
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech AFlorida A13710
Steven LiuMIT AIndiana A13710
Brad MacLaineTexas ANorthwestern A1370
Collin AceRutgers BNYU A1370
Ian ChowToronto AHarvard A13710
Halle FriedmanNYU ARutgers B1370
Nikhil ChellamNorthwestern ATexas A1370
Dan NiCornell BMinnesota A1370