Tom N. Tombaugh, PhD

Tom N. Tombaugh, PhD, was a Professor of Psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He served as Chairman of the Psychology Department, and was Director of Carleton's Centre for Memory Assessment and Research.

He published extensively on the subject of learning and memory, initially working in the fields of neuroscience and psychopharmacology and, more recently, in clinical neuropsychology. Tom Tombaugh co-authored of the Learning and Memory Battery (LAMB), a comprehensive test for assessing learning and memory abilities.