Abstract
Throughout his career, Andre Vandierendonck (PhD 1973, Ghent University) has been one of the most prominent scientific and institutional representatives of cognitive psychology in Belgium. Andre Vandierendonck became head of the Department of Experimental Psychology at Ghent University in 1995. At that time, the department consisted of two faculty members and a handful of scientific collaborators. Under the chairmanship of Andre Vandierendonck, it expanded exponentially after the introduction of a strong scientific research and publication tradition. Today, 15 years later, the same department counts nine faculty members and a scientific staff of nearly 60 people. Together, they produce a voluminous and high-quality body of scientific output addressing a wide range of topics in cognitive (neuro)psychology. Also at the European level, he has been active in the development and expansion of the field, as the president of European Society for Cognitive Psychology, as the editor of international journals and as one of the founders of the European Working Memory Symposia. This special issue is in celebration of Andre Vandierendonck’s contributions to cognitive psychology.
Highlights
Throughout his career, André Vandierendonck (PhD 1973, Ghent University) has been one of the most prominent scientific and institutional representatives of cognitive psychology in Belgium
During his own research career, André Vandierendonck was a pioneer in a variety of research areas in cognitive psychology
The Festschrift is organised according to André Vandierendonck’s personal research history. His initial contributions from the late 1970s to the early 1990s were mainly focused on categorisation. This topic is represented in the first article by Yves Rosseel from Ghent University, who was the first of more than 20 students to obtain a PhD under the supervision of André Vandierendonck, and who conducts research on categorization (Rosseel, 2002)
Summary
Throughout his career, André Vandierendonck (PhD 1973, Ghent University) has been one of the most prominent scientific and institutional representatives of cognitive psychology in Belgium. We have attempted to bring these research domains together in this Festschrift under the umbrella of Working Memory and Executive Control. André Vandierendonck’s second line of research on memory processes was mainly focused on the notion of schemata (Vandierendonck & Van Damme, 1988).
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