My name is Bram Van Rensbergen. I'm currently working as Senior Data Architect in the R&D division of StepUp Consulting.

Before that, I worked as a Java software engineer for Colruyt Group. I also have a background in quantitative research: I obtained a PhD in Psychology at the CONCAT research lab, in which I investigated computationally deriving subjective meaning from connectivity in large semantic networks (don't ask ;)).

At my Github page you can find the code of some of my personal projects, and of some of the experiments I created as part of my PhD.

You can contact me by e-mail at .




Publications in international journals

Van Rensbergen, B., De Deyne, S., & Storms, G. (2016). Estimating affective word covariates using word association data. Behavior Research Methods, 48(4), 1644–1652. doi:10.3758/s13428-015-0680-2. Impact factor publication year: 3.08. [link] [pdf] [data]

Van Rensbergen, B., Storms, G., & De Deyne, S. (2015). Examining assortativity in the mental lexicon: Evidence from word association data. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22(6), 1717-1724. doi:10.3758/s13423-015-0832-5. Impact factor publication year: 3.05. [link] [pdf]

Van Rensbergen, B., & Op de Beeck, H. (2014). The role of temporal context in norm-based encoding of faces. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21(1), 121-127. doi:10.3758/s13423-013-0478-0. Impact factor publication year: 3.37. [link] [pdf] [data]


Publications in international journals, not as first author

Stukken, L., Van Rensbergen, B., Vanpaemel, W., Storms, G. (2016). Understanding individual differences in representational abstraction: The role of working memory capacity. Acta Psychologica, 170, 94–102. Impact factor publication year: 1.82

Heyman, T., Van Rensbergen, B., Storms, G., Hutchison, K., & De Deyne, S. (2015). The influence of working memory load on semantic priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition, 41(3), 911-920. Impact factor publication year: 2.78. [link]


International Meeting Abstracts

Van Rensbergen, B., De Deyne, S., & Storms, G. (2014). Valence, dominance, and arousal as organizing principles of the mental lexicon. Association for Psychological Science. San Francisco, CA, USA, 22-25 May 2014. [link]

Van Rensbergen, B., Ameel, E., Van Assche, F., & Storms, G. (2012). Using support vector machines to determine linear separability. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Berlin, Germany, 13-15 April 2012. [link]