David E. Meyer (born in Louisville, Kentucky, February 3, 1943) is an American academic in the field of psychology.
He is director of the university's Brain, Cognition, and Action laboratory.
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.