Géry van Outryve d'Ydewalle#
Géry van Outryve d'Ydewalle passed away August 19, 2025.
Positions Held
- 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
- 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
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
