John Seamon
John Seamon is an American psychologist who is Professor of Psychology Emeritus and Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior Emeritus at Wesleyan University. His research focuses on memory.
Seamon read for a BS at Columbia University and a doctorate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. After postdoctoral work at New York University, he joined Wesleyan in 1972. He was awarded Emeritus status in 2013. His books include 1980's Memory & Cognition: An Introduction ; the 1980 reader Human Memory: Contemporary Readings ; 1992's Introduction to Psychology, co-written with D. T. Kendrick, the second edition of which was published in 1994; and 2015's Memory and Movies: What Films Can Teach Us About Memory.
