John Seamon (born February 8, 1943) is an American psychologist who is Professor of Psychology Emeritus and Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior Emeritus at Wesleyan University.
[1] Seamon read for a BS at Columbia University (1966) and a doctorate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1971).
After postdoctoral work at New York University, he joined Wesleyan in 1972.
He was awarded Emeritus status in 2013.
[1] His books include[2] 1980's Memory & Cognition: An Introduction (Oxford University Press); the 1980 reader Human Memory: Contemporary Readings (Oxford University Press);[3] 1992's Introduction to Psychology, co-written with D. T. Kendrick (Prentice Hall), the second edition of which was published in 1994; and 2015's Memory and Movies: What Films Can Teach Us About Memory (MIT Press).