Overview
Availability
- Dr Blake Saurels is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours) of Psychology - Hons Class 1A, The University of Queensland
Works
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2026
Journal Article
Vividness of mental imagery reflects a broad range of internally generated visual experiences
Schwarzkopf, D. Samuel, Yu, Xinran Amelia, Altan, Ecem, Bouyer, Loren N., Saurels, Blake W., Pellicano, Elizabeth and Arnold, Derek Henry (2026). Vividness of mental imagery reflects a broad range of internally generated visual experiences. Royal Society Open Science, 13 (3) 251887, 3. doi: 10.1098/rsos.251887
2026
Other Outputs
Electrophysiological evidence that the mental rotation task is an unreliable metric of visual imagery
Trotman, Conrad, Saurels, Blake W. and Arnold, Derek H. (2026). Electrophysiological evidence that the mental rotation task is an unreliable metric of visual imagery. The University of Queensland. (Dataset)
2026
Other Outputs
Earworms_EEG
Derek Arnold, Loren Bouyer, Blake Saurels and D. Samuel Schwarzkopf (2026). Earworms_EEG. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/f4b3702
2026
Other Outputs
Autism and Aphantasia
Derek H. Arnold, Loren N. Bouyer, Blake W. Saurels, D. Samuel Schwarzkopf and Elizabeth Pellicano (2026). Autism and Aphantasia. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/57f325b
2026
Journal Article
Increased susceptibility to the face pareidolia illusion in Visual Snow syndrome
Saurels, Blake W., Robinson, Amanda K. and Taubert, Jessica (2026). Increased susceptibility to the face pareidolia illusion in Visual Snow syndrome. Perception, 55 (2), 178-189. doi: 10.1177/03010066251387849
2026
Other Outputs
People report having idiosyncratic ‘diets’ of different types of imagined sensation when they re-experience the past, and pre-experience the future.
Arnold, Derek H., Bouyer, Loren, Saurels, Blake W. and Samuel Schwarzkopf, D. (2026). People report having idiosyncratic ‘diets’ of different types of imagined sensation when they re-experience the past, and pre-experience the future.. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/d65d744
2026
Other Outputs
Imagery modulates the pupillary response
Arnold, Derek H. and Saurels, Blake W. (2026). Imagery modulates the pupillary response. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/8bb06e2
2026
Journal Article
The Twinkle-Goes illusion impacts motor planning, and is likely perceptual in origin
Saurels, Blake W., Jilek, Benjamin R. and Arnold, Derek H. (2026). The Twinkle-Goes illusion impacts motor planning, and is likely perceptual in origin. Vision Research, 238 108714, 108714. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2025.108714
2025
Journal Article
Mental rotation is a weak measure of people’s propensity to visualise
Arnold, Derek H., Bouyer, Loren N., Saurels, Blake W., Pellicano, Elizabeth and Schwarzkopf, D. Samuel (2025). Mental rotation is a weak measure of people’s propensity to visualise. Consciousness and Cognition, 133 103907, 103907. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103907
2025
Conference Publication
Imagery priming of binocular rivalry is not a reliable metric of individual differences in the subjective vividness of visualisations
Bouyer, Loren N., Schwarzkopf, Dietrich S., Saurels, Blake W. and Arnold, Derek H. (2025). Imagery priming of binocular rivalry is not a reliable metric of individual differences in the subjective vividness of visualisations. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting 2025, St. Pete Beach, FL United States, 16-20 May 2025. Rockville, MD United States: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. doi: 10.1167/jov.25.9.2007
2025
Journal Article
Repetition violating events do not enhance sensitivity to embedded content, but repeated events can reduce sensitivity
Saurels, Blake W., Ma, Qingyu and Arnold, Derek H. (2025). Repetition violating events do not enhance sensitivity to embedded content, but repeated events can reduce sensitivity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 51 (7), 837-849. doi: 10.1037/xhp0001324
2025
Journal Article
Toward ecological validity in expression discrimination: forced-choice saccadic responses to posed and naturalistic faces
Peluso, Natalie, Saurels, Blake W. and Taubert, Jessica (2025). Toward ecological validity in expression discrimination: forced-choice saccadic responses to posed and naturalistic faces. Emotion, 25 (7), 1872-1878. doi: 10.1037/emo0001527
2025
Journal Article
One object with two identities: The rapid detection of face pareidolia in face and food detection tasks
Stuart, Greta, Saurels, Blake W., Robinson, Amanda K. and Taubert, Jessica (2025). One object with two identities: The rapid detection of face pareidolia in face and food detection tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 51 (6), 1-12. doi: 10.1037/xhp0001296
2025
Journal Article
Objective priming from pre-imagining inputs before binocular rivalry presentations does not predict individual differences in the subjective intensity of imagined experiences
Bouyer, Loren N., Schwarzkopf, Dietrich S., Saurels, Blake W. and Arnold, Derek H. (2025). Objective priming from pre-imagining inputs before binocular rivalry presentations does not predict individual differences in the subjective intensity of imagined experiences. Cognition, 256 106048, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.106048
2025
Journal Article
The vividness of visualisations and autistic trait expression are not strongly associated
Bouyer, Loren N., Pellicano, Elizabeth, Saurels, Blake W., Schwarzkopf, D. Samuel and Arnold, Derek H. (2025). The vividness of visualisations and autistic trait expression are not strongly associated. Consciousness and Cognition, 129 103821, 103821. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103821
2025
Journal Article
Don't think of a pink elephant: individual differences in visualisation predict involuntary imagery and its neural correlates
Arnold, Derek H., Hutchinson, Mary, Bouyer, Loren N., Schwarzkopf, D. Samuel, Pellicano, Elizabeth and Saurels, Blake W. (2025). Don't think of a pink elephant: individual differences in visualisation predict involuntary imagery and its neural correlates. Cortex, 183, 53-65. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.10.020
2025
Other Outputs
Twinkle-Goes Illusion Data - The extrapolation data (ms) for Experiment 1
Saurels, Blake W. and Arnold, Derek H. (2025). Twinkle-Goes Illusion Data - The extrapolation data (ms) for Experiment 1. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/553b99c
2025
Other Outputs
DATA FOR: Repetition violating events do not enhance sensitivity to embedded content, but repeated events can reduce sensitivity - Updated
Saurels, Blake and Arnold, Derek (2025). DATA FOR: Repetition violating events do not enhance sensitivity to embedded content, but repeated events can reduce sensitivity - Updated. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/0747161
2024
Other Outputs
Binocular rivalry and imagery
Bouyer, Loren N., Schwarzkopf, Dietrich S., Saurels, Blake W. and Arnold, Derek H. (2024). Binocular rivalry and imagery. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/00effb3
2024
Other Outputs
Pink Elephants Project
Arnold, Derek H., Bouyer, Loren N. and Saurels, Blake W. (2024). Pink Elephants Project. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/8c236f2
Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
The Neural Encoding of Naturalistic Faces for Social Perception
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Amanda Robinson, Associate Professor Jess Taubert
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Doctor Philosophy
The Social and Contextual Determinants of Pain Recognition
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Ada Kritikos, Associate Professor Jess Taubert
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