'attentive attention' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person who is paying close, careful attention to something. For example: "The teacher was pleased with the attentive attention the students were showing during the lesson."
The positive anterior difference in ERPs at 130 170 ms post-stimulus probably indexed pre-attentive attention orienting towards emotionally significant changes.
"He has been more attentive, paying attention to details".
The safe operation of big, heavy, motor-powered vehicles that can travel as high speed relies heavily on an attentive driver paying attention to the control systems they use to make the car go, as well as to the world around them.
This attentive listening and attention was important for many patients predominantly because they want to be understood.
We review evidence that shows the right IPL plays an important role in two different, but broadly complementary, aspects of attention: maintaining attentive control on current task goals as well as responding to salient new information or alerting stimuli in the environment.
"You have a very attentive audience that pays attention to what gets prosecuted," Ms. White said.
It might be preferable to adopt a 'passive attentive' paradigm involving mere attention without report.
To be more kind, work on developing an interest in other people and show them that you care by being attentive, asking questions, and paying attention to them.
Recent work by Philipp Koralus has suggested that a view along these lines can give a more satisfactory treatment of divided attention if the attentive pursuit of a task is understood to share certain formal properties with the answering of a question (Koralus, forthcoming).
The MMN can be elicited irrespective of attention, during non-attentive states such as sleep (Sallinen et al., 1994), or even in coma; where the presence of a MMN has been proposed as a predictor for recovery of consciousness (Kane et al., 1993).
"Whereas positive mood seems to promote creativity, flexibility, cooperation and reliance on mental shortcuts, negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking, paying greater attention to the external world," Joseph P. Forgas, a professor of social psychology at the University of New South Wales in Australia, wrote in the study.
