David E. Meyer (born in
Louisville, Kentucky, February 3, 1943) is an American academic in the field of
psychology
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. He is a professor at the
University of Michigan
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and is Chair of the Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience area of the
Psychology
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Department. He is director of the university's Brain, Cognition, and Action laboratory.
He received a B.A. in psychology from
Wittenberg University
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in 1964. He received an M.A. in mathematics in 1966 and a Ph.D. in Mathematical Psychology in 1969 from the
University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
. After earning his Ph.D., he worked with
Saul Sternberg at
Bell Labs
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then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996)
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before returning to the faculty of the Psychology Department of the University of Michigan in 1977.
With
Roger W. Schvaneveldt he developed the
lexical decision task The lexical decision task (LDT) is a procedure used in many psychology and psycholinguistics experiments. The basic procedure involves measuring how quickly people classify stimuli as words or nonwords.
Although versions of the task had been used ...
to investigate semantic memory. More recently he developed the EPIC cognitive architecture with
David Kieras
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.
He is a Fellow of the
Society of Experimental Psychologists,
American Psychological Society
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,
American Psychological Association
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,
American Association for the Advancement of Science and the
National Academy of Sciences.
References
External links
Biography page, University of Michigan
Living people
1943 births
People from Louisville, Kentucky
University of Michigan faculty
University of Michigan alumni
Wittenberg University alumni
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
21st-century American psychologists
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the American Psychological Association
Fellows of the Association for Psychological Science
Fellows of the Society of Experimental Psychologists
20th-century American psychologists
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