Géry van Outryve d'Ydewalle#

• Director of the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology in Leuven
• 1984 Full Professor at the Laboratory for experimental psychology at the KULeuven
• 1980 Docent at the Laboratory for experimental psychology, KULeuven
• 1974 PhD in Psychology, at the KULeuven

• Risk perception and decision making in genetic counselling
• Artificial Intelligence and knowledge extraction techniques
• Eye movements and attentional shifts
• Subjective factors and memory biases
• Motivation and memory: task involvement and improving memory
• The psychology of film perception: editing rules
• fMRI and the underlying mechanisms of prospective memory
• Clinical memory research in dementia
• Implicit memory and the incidental perception of advertisements
• Information overload and screen processing
• Acquisition of a foreign language by watching subtitled television programmes

• 1972 Félicien Cattier fellow (Francqui Foundation) and CRB fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation
• 1977 Psychology Award from the "Académie Royale de Belgique"
• 1978 Fulbright/Hays fellowship and Nato fellowship
• 1987-1988 Francqui Chair at the "Université de Liège"
• 1989 Member of the Academia Europaea
• 1992 Francqui Award
• 1998 Charter member/fellow of the "American Psychological Society" (currently a new name: "Association for Psychological Science")
• 2004 Invited member Chinese Academy of Science and Technology

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