Université de Genève
Uni Mail, FaPSE
40 bd du Pont d'Arve
CH-1205 Genève
Email:
Phone: 41 (0) 22 379 92 53
Office: 5160
Education:
2004 Master (DEA) in Cognitive Experimental Psychology; research on: "Human spatial orientation: Direction recovering
and path integration in a maze", under the direction of Roland Maurer, Université de Genève.
2010 PhD in Psychology at University of Geneva. Doctoral dissertation under the direction of Dirk Kerzel: "Visual perception of the equilibrium state of objects".
Research Interests:
Visual perception, naïve physics, visual perception of physical events, eye fixations, perception and arts.
Teaching:
Attention et âge
Publications:
Samuel, F. & Kerzel, D. (in press). Is this object balanced or unbalanced? Judgments are on the safe side.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.<pdf-file, 0.5 MB>
Conference Presentations:
Samuel, F. & Kerzel, D. (2009). Do subjective equilibrium judgments
correspond to physical reality? Annual meeting of the Applied Vision
Association, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Oral presentation.
Samuel, F. & Kerzel, D. (2008). Topmost parts are more important when judging whether an object will fall.
31th European Congress on Visual Perception, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Poster presentation.
<pdf-file, 455 KB>
Samuel, F. & Kerzel, D. (2007). Patterns of eye fixations during equilibrium judgements of composite objects.
30th European Congress on Visual Perception, Arezzo, Italy. Poster presentation.
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Samuel, F. & Kerzel, D. (2006). Visual perception of equilibrium orientation of composite objects.
29th European Congress on Visual Perception, St. Petersburg, Russia. Poster presentation.
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Samuel, F. & Maurer, R. (2005). Human spatial orientation: Direction recovering and path integration
in a maze. 5th Quadrennial Conference of the Royal Institute of Navigation, Reading, England. Oral
presentation.
