title: P. Lynn Newbigging
text: # 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.
  