P. Lynn Newbigging
# P. Lynn Newbigging

P. Lynn Newbigging was a Canadian psychologist.

## Career

Newbigging was Professor of Psychology at the McMaster University, Ontario.

He was active in the Canadian Psychological Association of which he became president in 1965. He was also editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology.

## Heritage

Each year four P.L. Newbigging Prizes are awarded to students graduating with high averages from a program in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University.

## Positions

* President, Canadian Psychological Association (1965)
* Honorary Life Fellow, Canadian Psychological Association

## Publications

* Newbigging, P.L. (1961). The perceptual redintegration of frequent and infrequent words. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 15, 123–132.
* Newbigging, P.L. (1965). Attention and perceptual learning. Canadian Psychologist, 6a, 309–331.
* Newbigging, P.L. and Hay, J. (1962). The practice effect in recognition threshold determinations as a function of word frequency and length. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 16, 177–184.
* Parker, N.I. and Newbigging, P.L. (1963). Magnitude and decrement of the Muller-Lyer Illusion as a function of pre-training. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 17, 134–140.
