Abstract
The present special issue was prepared after the conference organised for José Morais’ retirement, 19-20 September 2008, at the Royal Academy in Brussels, with the help of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique-FNRS, Belgium, of the Calouste Gulbenkian Fund, Portugal, and of the various teams of SCOLA, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.). The point of this editorial is not to trace back the career of José Morais, as this has been done in a moving and funny way through all his friends and colleagues’ talks. For this I want to thank them all warmly (in order of appearance on the “Scene”): Véronique Halloin, at that time Vice-Recteur pour la recherche et le développement of U.L.B., António Sampaio da Nóvoa, Rector of Lisbon University, Cécile van de Leemput, at that time Dean of the Faculté des Sciences Psychologiques et de l’Éducation of U.L.B., Jacques Mehler, SISSA, Trieste, Jesus Alegria, U.L.B., Philippe Mousty, U.L.B., Jacqueline Leybaert, U.L.B., Jonathan Grainger, Université d’Aix-Marseille, Uli Frauenfelder, Université de Genève, Michel Fayol, Université de Clermont- Ferrand, Olivier Klein, U.L.B., Assaad Azzi, U.L.B., Beatrice de Gelder, Tilburg University, Serge Brédart, Université de Liège, Elisabetta Ladavas, University of Bologna, Patrick Fery, U.L.B., Philippe Peigneux, U.L.B., Xavier Seron, Université Catholique de Louvain, Alex Lefèbvre, U.L.B., Nathalie Vercruysse, U.L.B., Nathalie Pattyn, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Manuel Paiva, U.L.B., Daniel Holender, U.L.B., Guy Karnas, U.L.B., Tim Shallice, University College London and SISSA, Trieste, Régine Kolinsky, U.L.B., Stanislas Dehaene, Collège de France and INSERM, Paris, Alain Content, U.L.B., Isabelle Peretz, BRAMS, Université de Montréal, Mireille Besson, CNRS, Marseille, Axel Cleeremans, U.L.B., and Géry d’Ydewalle, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Not to talk about all those who, like Juan Segui, and, above all, José's Mentor, Paul Bertelson, could not participate to the conference but were present in our minds…