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Professor Arash Sahraie

Professor Arash Sahraie
Professor Arash Sahraie
Professor Arash Sahraie

Chair in Psychology

About
Email Address
a.sahraie@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272387
Office Address

School of Psychology, William Guild Building, Room T02/T07, Kings College, Old Aberdeen AB24 3FX

School/Department
School of Psychology

Internal Memberships

  • Head of School
  • Member of School Management Group
  • Member of Senate

 

Research

Current Research

  • Non-invasive assessment of visual system
  • Blindsight research: study of conscious and unconscious visual processing after brain injury
  • Development and assessment of vision rehabilitation strategies.
  • Parameters affecting orienting behaviour: eye movements and visual attention.
Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

  • Level 2: Perception
  • Level 4: Visual awareness
  • MRes: Induction; Funding sources and grant application; Writing 9-month report
Publications

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  • How COVID lockdowns distorted our sense of time – new research

    Sahraie, A.
    Contributions to Specialist Publications

  • Lost time: perception of events timeline affected by the COVID pandemic

    Pawlak, D. A., Sahraie, A.
    PloS ONE, vol. 18, no. 5, 0278250
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Phasic alertness and multisensory integration contribute to visual awareness of weak visual targets in audio-visual stimulation under Continuous Flash Suppression

    Cederblad, M., Äijälä, J., Andersen, S., Macleod, M. J., Sahraie, A.
    Vision, vol. 6, 31
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • More or Less of Me and You: Self-Relevance Augments the Effects of Item Probability on Stimulus Prioritization

    Svensson, S., Golubickis, M., Maclean, H., Falben, J. K., Persson, L. M., Tsamadi, D., Caughey, S., Sahraie, A., Macrae, C. N.
    Psychological Research, vol. 86, pp. 1145–1164
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The expanding backlog of mental health patients and the continued toll of zero-COVID policy on healthcare settings

    Cardno, S. J., Sahraie, A.
    Medical Research Archives , vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 1-9
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Increased visual sensitivity and occipital activity in patients with hemianopia following vision rehabilitation

    Ajina, S., Jünemann, K., Sahraie, A., Bridge, H.
    The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, vol. 41, no. 28, pp. 5994-6005
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Conscious awareness modulates processing speed in the Redundant Signal Effect

    Cederblad, A. M. H., Visokomogilski, A., Andersen, S. K., Macleod, M., Sahraie, A.
    Experimental Brain Research, vol. 239, pp. 1877–1893
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Self-relevance enhances evidence gathering during decision-making

    Falben, J. K., Golubickis, M., Tamulaitis, S., Caughey, S., Tsamadi, D., Persson, L. M., Svensson, S., Sahraie, A., Macrae, C. N.
    Acta Psychologica, vol. 209, pp. 103122
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Efficacy and predictors of recovery of function after eye movement training in 296 hemianopic patients

    Sahraie, A., Cederblad, M., Kenkel, S., Romano, J. G.
    Cortex, vol. 125, pp. 149-160
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Practice-related changes in eye movement strategy in healthy adults with simulated hemianopia

    Nowakowska, A., Clarke, A. D. F., Sahraie, A., Hunt, A. R.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 128, pp. 232-240
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The visual influence of ostracism

    Golubickis, M., Sahraie, A., Hunt, A. R., Visokomogilski, A., Topalidis, P., MacRae, C. N.
    European Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 182-188
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Self-relevance enhances the benefits of attention on perception

    MacRae, N., Visokomogilski, A., Golubickis, M., Sahraie, A.
    Visual Cognition, vol. 26, pp. 475-481
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Self-prioritization and perceptual matching: The effects of temporal construal

    Golubickis, M., Falben, J. K., Sahraie, A., Visokomogilski, A., Cunningham, W. A., Sui, J., Macrae, C. N.
    Memory & Cognition, vol. 45, no. 7, pp. 1223-1239
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Self-Relevance Prioritizes Access to Visual Awareness

    Macrae, C. N., Visokomogilski, A., Golubickis, M., Cunningham, W. A., Sahraie, A.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 438-443
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Inefficient search strategies in simulated hemianopia

    Nowakowska, A., Clarke, A. D. F., Sahraie, A., Hunt, A. R.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 42, no. 11, pp. 1858-1872
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Use of NeuroEyeCoach™ to Improve Eye Movement Efficacy in Patients with Homonymous Visual Field Loss

    Sahraie, A., Smania, N., Zihl, J.
    BioMed Research International , vol. 2016, pp. 1-9
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Search strategies in simulated hemianopia

    Nowakowska, A., Clarke, A. D. F., Sahraie, A., Hunt, A. R.
    i-Perception, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 4-4
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Simulated hemianopia: the effect of partial information loss on serial and parallel search

    Nowakowska, A., Clarke, A. D. F., Sahraie, A., Hunt, A. R.
    38th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2015 Liverpool, pp. 283-284
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Context dependence of attentional capture

    Hunt, A., Sahraie, A., Macrae, C. N.
    38th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2015 Liverpool, pp. 79-79
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Redundancy gain in binocular rivalry

    Ritchie, K. L., Bannerman, R. L., Sahraie, A.
    Perception, vol. 43, no. 12, pp. 1316-1328
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Pupil response as a predictor of blindsight in hemianopia

    Sahraie, A., Trevethan, C. T., Macleod, M. J., Urquhart, J., Weiskrantz, L.
    PNAS, vol. 110, no. 45, pp. 18333-18338
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Eye rivalry and object rivalry in the intact and split-brain

    Ritchie, K. L., Bannerman, R. L., Turk, D. J., Sahraie, A.
    Vision Research, vol. 91, pp. 102-107
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The continuum of detection and awareness of visual stimuli within the blind field: from blindsight to the sighted-sight

    Sahraie, A., Trevethan, C. T., MacLeod, M. J., Weiskrantz, L., Hunt, A. R.
    Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 3579-3585
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Does delay impair localisation in blindsight?

    Carey, D. P., Trevethan, C. T., Weiskrantz, L., Sahraie, A.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 50, no. 14, pp. 3673-3680
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Saccadic latency is modulated by emotional content of spatially filtered face stimuli

    Bannerman, R. L., Hibbard, P. B., Chalmers, K., Sahraie, A.
    Emotion, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 1384-1392
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Emotional stimuli capture spatial attention but do not modulate spatial memory

    Bannerman, R., Temminck, E. V., Sahraie, A.
    Vision Research, vol. 65, pp. 12-20
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Trans-saccadic priming in hemianopia: sighted-field sensitivity is boosted by a blind-field prime

    Ritchie, K. L., Hunt, A., Sahraie, A.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 997-1005
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Evidence for perceptual learning with repeated stimulation after partial and total cortical blindness

    Trevethan, C. T., Urquhart, J., Ward, R., Gentleman, D., Sahraie, A.
    Advances in Cognitive Psychology, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 29-37
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Keeping track of locations in space

    Ritchie, K. L., Hunt, A., Sahraie, A.
    i-Perception, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 384
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • The effect of fear in the periphery in binocular rivalry

    Ritchie, K. L., Bannerman, R. L., Sahraie, A.
    Perception, vol. 40, no. 12, pp. 1395-1401
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Trans-saccadic priming of location and orientation

    Ritchie, K. L., Hunt, A., Sahraie, A.
    Perception, vol. 41, no. ECVP Abstract Supplement, pp. 56
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Binocular rivalry: a window into emotional processing in aging

    Bannerman, R. L., Regener, P., Sahraie, A.
    Psychology and Aging, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 372-380
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Detection of target displacement across saccades in cortical blindness.

    Ritchie, K. L., Hunt, A., Sahraie, A.
    Journal of Eye Movement Research, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 224
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Face, house binocular rivalry under central and eccentric viewing conditions.: Perception, 40, ECVP 2011

    Ritchie, K. L., Bannerman, R. L., Sahraie, A.
    Contributions to Conferences: Posters

  • Saccadic remapping in hemianopia

    Ritchie, K. L., Hunt, A., Sahraie, A.
    Scottish Vision Group, pp. 190
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Consciousness of the first order in blindsight

    Sahraie, A., Hibbard, P. B., Trevethan, C. T., Ritchie, K. L., Weiskrantz, L.
    PNAS, vol. 107, no. 49, pp. 21217-21222
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Blindsight

    Trevethan, C. T., Sahraie, A.
    Encyclopedia of Consciousness. Elsevier Inc., pp. 107-122, 16 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Attentional bias to brief threat-related faces revealed by saccadic eye movements

    Bannerman, R. L., Milders, M. V., Sahraie, A.
    Emotion, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 733-738
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Improved detection following neuro-eye therapy in patients with post-geniculate brain damage

    Sahraie, A., Macleod, M. J., Trevethan, C. T., Robson, S. E., Olson, J. A., Callaghan, P., Yip, B.
    Experimental Brain Research, vol. 206, no. 1, pp. 25-34
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Spatial aspects of binocular rivalry in emotional faces

    Ritchie, K., Bannerman, R., Sahraie, A.
    Vision Sciences Society, 351
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Vision Exercising Apparatus

    Sahraie, A.
    Patents: Patents

  • Attentional cueing: fearful body postures capture attention with saccades

    Bannerman, R. L., Milders, M. V., Sahraie, A.
    Journal of Vision, vol. 10, no. 5, 23
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Perceptual Learning in the Blind Field of Hemianopic Patients

    Saharie, A., MacLeod, M. J.
    49th Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Psychophysiological-Research
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts

  • Processing emotional stimuli: comparison of saccadic and manual choice-reaction times

    Bannerman, R. L., Milders, M., Sahraie, A.
    Cognition & Emotion, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 930-954
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Orienting to threat: faster localization of fearful facial expressions and body postures revealed by saccadic eye movements

    Bannerman, R. L., Milders, M., de Gelder, B., Sahraie, A.
    Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, vol. 276, no. 1662, pp. 1635-1641
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Inhibition related impairments of coherent motion perception in the attention-induced motion blindness paradigm

    Hesselmann, G., Allan, J. L., Sahraie, A., Milders, M., Niedeggen, M.
    Spatial Vision, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 493-509
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Intact navigation skills after bilateral loss of striate cortex

    de Gelder, B., Tamietto, M., van Boxtel, G., Goebel, R., Sahraie, A., van den Stock, J., Stienen, B. M. C., Weiskrantz, L., Pegna, A.
    Current Biology, vol. 18, no. 24, pp. R1128-R1129
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Does localisation blindsight extend to two-dimensional targets?

    Carey, D. P., Sahraie, A., Trevethan, C. T., Weiskrantz, L.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 46, no. 13, pp. 3053-3060
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Influence of emotional facial expressions on binocular rivalry

    Bannerman, R. L., Milders, M., de Gelder, B., Sahraie, A.
    Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 317-326
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Redundant target effect and the processing of colour and luminance

    Ridgway, N. C., Milders, M., Sahraie, A.
    Experimental Brain Research, vol. 187, no. 1, pp. 153-160
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Temporal properties of spatial channel of processing in hemianopia

    Sahraie, A., Trevethan, C. T., MacLeod, M.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 879-885
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Minimum presentation time for masked facial expression discrimination

    Milders, M., Sahraie, A., Logan, S.
    Cognition & Emotion, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 63-82
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Saccadic distractor effect and S-cone processing in normal observers and two cases of hemianopia

    Ridgway, N., MacLeod, M. J., Milders, M., Sahraie, A.
    31st European Conference on Visual Perception, pp. 63
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Transient pupil constrictions to faces are sensitive to orientation and species

    Conway, C. A., Jones, B. C., DeBruine, L., Sahraie, A.
    Journal of Vision, vol. 8, no. 3, 17
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Induced visual sensitivity changes in chronic hemianopia

    Sahraie, A.
    Current Opinion in Neurology, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 661-666
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Hemispatial asymmetries in judgement of stimulus size

    Charles, J., Sahraie, A., McGeorge, P.
    Perception and Psychophysics, vol. 69, no. 5, pp. 687-698
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Can blindsight be superior to 'sighted-sight'?

    Trevethan, C. T., Sahraie, A., Weiskrantz, L.
    Cognition, vol. 103, no. 3, pp. 491-501
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Form discrimination in a case of blindsight

    Trevethan, C. T., Sahraie, A., Weiskrantz, L.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 45, no. 9, pp. 2092-2103
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Blindsight and visual rehabilitation in the cortically blind

    Sahraie, A., Trevethan, C. T., MacLeod, M. J., Olson, J., Weiskrantz, L.
    Perception, vol. 35, pp. 232-232
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Increased sensitivity after repeated stimulation of residual spatial channels in blindsight

    Sahraie, A., Trevethan, C. T., MacLeod, M. J., Murray, A. D., Olson, J. A., Weiskrantz, L.
    PNAS, vol. 103, no. 40, pp. 14971-14976
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The effect of perceptual load on attention-induced motion blindness: The efficiency of selective inhibition

    Hay, J. L., Milders, M. V., Sahraie, A., Niedeggen, M.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 885-907
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • ERPs predict the appearance of visual stimuli in a temporal selection task.

    Hesselmann, G., Niedeggen, M., Sahraie, A., Milders, M. V.
    Brain Research, vol. 1097, no. 1, pp. 205-215
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Reflections on bimanual phase shifting under different visual conditions

    Buckingham, G., Carey, D. P. M., Sahraie, A.
    Perception, vol. 35, no. Supplement, pp. 151
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Specifying the distractor inhibition account of attention-induced motion blindness.

    Hesselmann, G., Niedeggen, M., Sahraie, A., Milders, M. V.
    Vision Research, vol. 46, pp. 1048-1056
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Central inhibition ability modulates attention-induced motion blindness

    Milders, M. V., Hay, J. L., Sahraie, A., Niedeggen, M.
    Cognition, vol. 94, no. 2, pp. B23-B33
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Probing the prerequisites for motion blindness

    Niedeggen, M., Hesselmann, G., Sahraie, A., Milders, M. V., Blakemore, C.
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 584-597
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Influence of task and scene content on subjective video quality

    Zhong, Y., Richardson, I., Sahraie, A., McGeorge, P.
    Unknown Publisher. 7 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Factors affecting stimulus detection in the cortically blind

    Trevethan, C. T., Sahraie, A.
    Journal of Vision, vol. 3, no. 9
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Oculomotor control and the maintenance of spatially and temporally distributed events in visuo-spatial working memory

    Pearson, D. G., Sahraie, A.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. A, Human Experimental Psychology, vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 1089-1111
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Transient blindness to disparity defined depth

    Sahraie, A., Milders, M., Niedeggen, M.
    Journal of Vision, vol. 3, no. 9, 560
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Spatial channels of visual processing in cortical blindness

    Sahraie, A., Trevethan, C. T., Weiskrantz, L., Olson, J., MacLeod, M. J., Murray, A. D., Dijkhuizen, R. S., Counsell, C. E., Coleman, R.
    European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 1189-1196
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Spatial and temporal processing in a subject with cortical blindness following occipital surgery

    Trevethan, C. T., Sahraie, A.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 41, no. 10, pp. 1296-1306
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Detection of acceleration rather than direction of motion is more sensitive to glaucomatous nerve damage

    Azuara-Blanco, A., Sahraie, A., Kinnear, P. R., Taherian, K.
    Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Is experimental motion blindness due to sensory suppression? An ERP approach

    Niedeggen, M., Hesselmann, G., Milders, M. V., Blakemore, C., Sahraie, A.
    Cognitive Brain Research, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 241-247
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • New Farnsworth-Munsell 100 hue test norms of normal observers for each year of age 5-22 and for age decades 30-70

    Kinnear, P. R., Sahraie, A.
    British Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 86, no. 12, pp. 1408-1411
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Psychophysical and pupillometric study of spatial channels of visual processing in blindsight

    Sahraie, A., Trevethan, C. T., Cruce, R., Murray, A. D., Weiskrantz, L.
    Experimental Brain Research, vol. 143, no. 2, pp. 249-256
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Pupillometric investigation of spatial vision in cortically blind

    Trevethan, C. T., Sahraie, A., Weiskrantz, L.
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    Other Contributions: Other Contributions

  • Attention induced motion blindness

    Sahraie, A., Milders, M. V., Niedeggen, M.
    Vision Research, vol. 41, no. 13, pp. 1613-1617
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Eye movements compared to attention shifts as disruptors in spatial STM: Evidence from Corsi span

    Pearson, D. G., Sahraie, A.
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    Other Contributions: Other Contributions

  • Oculomotor control and the maintenance of location in spatial short-term memory

    Pearson, D. G., Sahraie, A.
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    Other Contributions: Other Contributions

  • Spatio-temporal and motion detection deficits in idiopathic demyelinating optic neuritis (IDON)

    Purdie, T., Sahraie, A., Olson, J.
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    Other Contributions: Other Contributions

  • The effect of oculomotor control on encoding visuo-spatial events

    Sahraie, A., Pearson, D. G.
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    Other Contributions: Other Contributions

  • Acquired colour vision defects in glaucoma - their detection and clinical significance

    Pacheco-Cutillas, M., Sahraie, A., Edgar, D. F.
    British Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 83, pp. 1396-1402
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Awareness and confidence ratings in motion perception without geniculo- striate projection

    Sahraie, A., Weiskrantz, L., Barbur, J. L.
    Behavioural Brain Research, vol. 96, no. 1-2, pp. 71-77
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

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