Géry van Outryve d'Ydewalle#
| Membership Number: | 374 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http://dydewalle.be/gery |
Present and Previous Positions
- 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
Fields of Scholarship
- Motivation and memory: task involvement and improving memory
- Subjective factors and memory biases
- Eye movements and attentional shifts
- The psychology of film perception: editing rules
- Acquisition of a foreign language by watching subtitled television programmes
- Information overload and screen processing
- Implicit memory and the incidental perception of advertisements
- Artificial Intelligence and knowledge extraction techniques
- Risk perception and decision making in genetic counselling
- Clinical memory research in dementia
- fMRI and the underlying mechanisms of prospective memory
Honours and Awards
- 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
