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The text was prepared at the request of the National Fund for Scientific Research on the occasion of the 1995 Quinquennial Prizes award ceremony. After a reference to the author’s formation years in Brussels and Cambridge, the main leading themes of the work carried out in the last 40 years at the Brussels Experimental Psychology Laboratory and some other places are briefly described.
Paul Bertelson (Mon,) studied this question.