Ian M.L. Hunter

Ian Melville Logan Hunter (14 October 1927 – 30 August 2004) was a Scottish experimental psychologist.

He proceeded to the University of Oxford where he undertook research supervised by George Humphrey.

He obtained his DPhil in 1953 for a thesis entitled A comparative investigation of generalization processes.

His early work at Oxford was on transposition behaviour which led to a number of publications (Hunter, 1952).

[3] Later, he wrote two popular books on memory which sold several hundred thousand copies (Hunter, 1957, 1964).