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Roses Are Red, Socks Are Blue: Switching Dimensions Disrupts Young Children’s Language Comprehension

Language is used to identify objects in many different ways. An apple can be identified using its name, color, and other attributes. Skilled language comprehension requires listeners to flexibly shift between different dimensions. We asked whether this shifting would be difficult for 3-year-olds, who have relatively immature executive function skills and struggle to switch between dimensions in...

Free groups and roses

Consider the 2n symbols x1, . . . , xn, x−1 1 , . . . , x −1 n . Collect these into a set G. There is a map from G to itself which interchanges xi and x−1 i . This map is denoted by the usual inversion symbol g 7→ g−1. Thus x−1 i is unambiguous and (x −1 i ) −1 = xi. The empty word will be denoted by 1. A word is defined to be a finite ordered list of elements of G, depicted as exemplified by x...

Sarajevo Roses and Commemorative Plaques

Scent evolution in Chinese roses.

The phenolic methyl ether 3,5-dimethoxytoluene (DMT) is a major scent compound of many modern rose varieties, and its fragrance participates in the characteristic "tea scent" that gave their name to Tea and Hybrid Tea roses. Among wild roses, phenolic methyl ether (PME) biosynthesis is restricted to Chinese rose species, but the progenitors of modern roses included both European and Chinese spe...

Red Roses and Gift Chocolates Are Judged More Positively in the U.S. Near Valentine’s Day: Evidence of Naturally Occurring Cultural Priming

Attitudes are not static, but constructed at the moment of the evaluation, incorporating temporary contextual influences. How do meaningful events that naturally occur within a culture, such as a national holiday, shape evaluative judgments of objects related to the holiday? We focused on evaluations of red roses and gift chocolates, which are everyday objects, but also iconic of Valentine's Da...