There was no difference between species with respect to FA rate, F 1, 438) = 2.22; p =.16, and the effects on sensitivity did not appear to result from differences of attention in our animal cohort (relative to the human group), since the lapse rate did not display significant differences as a function of subject species lapse rate: F 1, 438) = 3.36; p =.08.
A statistically significant difference of lateralized attention in patients versus controls, however, was not established.
The main difference is one of attention span.
The biggest difference between "politics of attention" and "economy of attention" is that the latter reflects a relation of supply and demand, while the former reflects a relationship of the distribution of authority, especially the competition deriving from the differentiated authority.
Given the tight relation between WMC and attention control, it is perhaps not surprising that individual differences in WMC predict individual differences in lapses of attention in both laboratory and daily life situations.
These have revealed that the phenomenal differences produced by shifts of attention include differences of perceived brightness, contrast, and saturation of colours, but do not include differences of hue (Carrasco, Ling & Read, 2004, Fuller & Carrasco, 2006).
To confirm that interindividual differences in helping behavior as measured using the ZPG are not brought about by differences in allocation of attention, we calculated the correlation between the total amount of helping and the percentage of stars picked up, that randomly appeared during the game.
The results of this study showed statistically significant differences in quality of attention between the two groups.
Such a setup prevents an unambiguous interpretation of the N100-suppression effect when distinguishing self- and externally-produced sensory stimuli: the N100-suppression can also be explained by differences in the allocation of attention in different conditions.
These findings are unlikely to be due to a difference in the level of attention between the conditions, since stimulus-based differences were minimized between the synchronous and asynchronous stroking conditions.
