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
Other Outputs
People report having idiosyncratic ‘diets’ of different types of imagined sensation when they re-experience the past, and pre-experience the future.
Derek H. Arnold, Loren Bouyer, Blake W. Saurels and D. Samuel Schwarzkopf (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
2025
Journal Article
Increased susceptibility to the face pareidolia illusion in Visual Snow syndrome
Saurels, Blake W., Robinson, Amanda K. and Taubert, Jessica (2025). Increased susceptibility to the face pareidolia illusion in Visual Snow syndrome. Perception 03010066251387849, 3010066251387849. doi: 10.1177/03010066251387849
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. 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
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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. 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
2024
Journal Article
A behavioral advantage for the face pareidolia illusion in peripheral vision
Saurels, Blake W., Peluso, Natalie and Taubert, Jessica (2024). A behavioral advantage for the face pareidolia illusion in peripheral vision. Scientific Reports, 14 (1) 10040, 1-10. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-60892-z
2024
Journal Article
Enhanced electrophysiological responses to explicitly predicted and pre-imagined inputs, with confirmation from online decoding with neuro-feedback
Arnold, Derek H., Electricity, Felicity and Saurels, Blake W. (2024). Enhanced electrophysiological responses to explicitly predicted and pre-imagined inputs, with confirmation from online decoding with neuro-feedback. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291 (2016) 20232908, 20232908. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2023.2908
2024
Journal Article
Predicting the subjective intensity of imagined experiences from electrophysiological measures of oscillatory brain activity
Arnold, Derek H., Saurels, Blake W., Anderson, Natasha, Andresen, Isabella and Schwarzkopf, Dietrich S. (2024). Predicting the subjective intensity of imagined experiences from electrophysiological measures of oscillatory brain activity. Scientific Reports, 14 (1) 836, 1-14. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-50760-7
2024
Other Outputs
DATA FOR PAPER: Repetition violating events do not enhance sensitivity to embedded content, but repeated events can reduce sensitivity - Superseded
Saurels, Blake (2024). DATA FOR PAPER: Repetition violating events do not enhance sensitivity to embedded content, but repeated events can reduce sensitivity - Superseded. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/0fe383a
2023
Journal Article
Event probabilities have a different impact on early and late electroencephalographic measures regarded as metrics of prediction
Saurels, Blake W., Johnston, Alan, Yarrow, Kielan and Arnold, Derek H. (2023). Event probabilities have a different impact on early and late electroencephalographic measures regarded as metrics of prediction. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 36 (1), 187-199. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_02076
2023
Other Outputs
Enhanced electrophysiological responses to explicitly predicted and pre-imagined inputs, with confirmation from online decoding with neuro-feedback
Arnold, Derek H., Saurels, Blake W. and Electricity, Felicity (2023). Enhanced electrophysiological responses to explicitly predicted and pre-imagined inputs, with confirmation from online decoding with neuro-feedback. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/c774dd1
Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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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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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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