Origins of difference in significance between lmer/pvals.fnc and aov?

I have a data set which seems amenable to analysis either 
through lmer or aov, so I am comparing their results. I'm 
finding small p-values for the fixed effect of interest in 
either case, but they differ quite a bit

One contributing factor is that if I read your output correctly, aov() is doing an F test using some quite low degrees of freedom (1?) for the top line, while lmer is testing a coefficient's t-statistic using (iirc) only the density degrees of freedom which is typically, if not always (?) the same as the residual dof. 

S Ellison
 

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