David E. Meyer (born in Louisville, Kentucky, February 3, 1943) is an American academic in the field of psychology. He is a professor at the University of Michigan and is Chair of the Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience area of the Psychology Department. He is director of the university's Brain, Cognition, and Action laboratory. He received a B.A. in psychology from Wittenberg University 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. After earning his Ph.D., he worked with Saul Sternberg at Bell Labs 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 to investigate semantic memory. More recently he developed the EPIC cognitive architecture with David Kieras. He is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, American Psychological Society, American Psychological Association, 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