Dr Blake Saurels
Postdoctoral Research Fellow & Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Psychology
Journal Articles
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. doi: 10.1037/emo0001527
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, 1-12. doi: 10.1037/xhp0001296
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
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
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
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
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
Saurels, Blake W., Yarrow, Kielan, Lipp, Ottmar V. and Arnold, Derek H. (2023). The temporal visual oddball effect is not caused by repetition suppression. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85 (6), 1755-1760. doi: 10.3758/s13414-023-02730-4
Arnold, Derek H., Saurels, Blake W., Moses, Eleanor, Hohaia, Wiremu and Goodale, Melvyn A. (2023). Neural correlates of visual acuity for fine text. Vision Research, 207 108219, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2023.108219
Saurels, Blake and Arnold, Derek H. (2023). Size Perception: An Important Step Toward a Larger Understanding. Neuroscience, 520, 159-160. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2023.03.005
Arnold, Derek H., Andresen, Isabella, Anderson, Natasha and Saurels, Blake W. (2023). Commonalities between the Berger Rhythm and spectra differences driven by cross-modal attention and imagination. Consciousness and Cognition, 107 103436, 103436. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2022.103436
Saurels, Blake W., Arnold, Derek H., Anderson, Natasha L., Lipp, Ottmar V. and Yarrow, Kielan (2022). The perceived duration of expected events depends on how the expectation is formed. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 84 (5), 1718-1725. doi: 10.3758/s13414-022-02519-x
Saurels, Blake W., Frommelt, Tonya, Yarrow, Kielan, Lipp, Ottmar V. and Arnold, Derek H. (2022). Neural prediction errors depend on how an expectation was formed. Cortex, 147, 102-111. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.10.012
Hohaia, Wiremu, Saurels, Blake W., Johnston, Alan, Yarrow, Kielan and Arnold, Derek H. (2022). Occipital alpha-band brain waves when the eyes are closed are shaped by ongoing visual processes. Scientific Reports, 12 (1) 1194, 1194. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-05289-6
Saurels, Blake W., Hohaia, Wiremu, Yarrow, Kielan, Johnston, Alan and Arnold, Derek H. (2021). Visual predictions, neural oscillations and naïve physics. Scientific Reports, 11 (1) 16127, 16127. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-95295-x
Arnold, Derek H., Saurels, Blake W., Anderson, Natasha L. and Johnston, Alan (2021). An observer model of tilt perception, sensitivity and confidence. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288 (1956) 20211276, 20211276. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1276
Saurels, Blake W., Lipp, Ottmar V., Yarrow, Kielan and Arnold, Derek H. (2020). Correction to: Predictable events elicit less visual and temporal information uptake in an oddball paradigm (Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, (2020), 82, 3, (1074-1087), 10.3758/s13414-019-01899-x). Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 82 (7), 3774-3774. doi: 10.3758/s13414-020-02088-x
Saurels, Blake W., Lipp, Ottmar V., Yarrow, Kielan and Arnold, Derek H. (2019). Predictable events elicit less visual and temporal information uptake in an oddball paradigm. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 82 (3), 1074-1087. doi: 10.3758/s13414-019-01899-x
Conference Paper
Saurels, Blake and Arnold, Derek (2023). Event probabilities tend to scale inversely with neural measures of prediction error, but positively with measures of time perception. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting 2023, St. Pete Beach, FL United States, 19-24 May 2023. Rockville, MD United States: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. doi: 10.1167/jov.23.9.5826
Thesis
Saurels, Blake William (2022). The perceptual and neural consequences of different types of prediction. PhD Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/f42bfbd
Data Collections
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
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
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
Arnold, Derek H., Bouyer, Loren N. and Saurels, Blake W. (2024). Pink Elephants Project. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/8c236f2
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
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
Saurels, Blake and Arnold, Derek (2023). Event probabilities data. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/498a039
Saurels, Blake, Arnold, Derek and Lipp, Otmar (2021). Different types of Prediction EEG data. The University of Queensland. (Collection) doi: 10.48610/ad94a19
Saurels, Blake, Arnold, Derek and Lipp, Ottmar (2021). Experiment 2 Raw EEG Data: different types of prediction. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/a8b0604
Saurels, Blake, Arnold, Derek and Lipp, Ottmar (2021). Experiment 1 Raw EEG Data: different types of prediction. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/c7a442e
Saurels, Blake, Arnold, Derek and Lipp, Ottmar (2021). Condensed data for: Neural prediction errors depend on how an expectation was formed. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/204757f
Saurels, Blake, Arnold, Derek and Lipp, Ottmar (2021). README file for datasets associated with the project. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/9e79486