“…The general ideas put forward in this opening paragraph are pervasive in Psychology, taken as fundamental aspects of broad areas of research such as attention (Beck & Kastner, 2009;Desimone & Duncan, 1995;Pashler, 1998), learning McLaren et al, 2014), decision making (Evans, 2008), and perception (Carrasco, 2011). This thesis deals with the interaction between two potent influences on one's behaviour, namely learning and attention.…”