John Maule is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Psychology at the University of Sussex. He is focused on how our visual system manages to encode the colours around us efficiently. His areas of research include ensemble perception, the role of priors in perception in autism, and how the environment affects discrimination. His research uses behavioural and eye-tracking techniques. John completed his PhD, “Ensemble Perception of Hue” in 2015 and has been working as a post-doc at the Sussex Colour Group and Baby Lab since. 