First Report of Twig Dieback Caused by on Highbush Blueberry in the Continental United States.

Highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) is an important fruit crop for pick-your-own agritourism farms in the Midwest. Declining or diseased plants are a major concern for pick-your-own farms, as consumers prioritize healthy plants and organic practices (Norby and Retallick 2012). In August 2023, leaf spot and dieback symptoms were observed sporadically on the current year's growth throughout an organic berry agritourism farm in Eastern Iowa.

The irrepressible influence of vocal stereotypes on trust.

There is a reciprocal relationship between trust and vocal communication in human interactions. On one hand, a predisposition towards trust is necessary for communication to be meaningful and effective. On the other hand, we use vocal cues to signal our own trustworthiness and to infer it from the speech of others.

Tool use and function knowledge shape visual object processing.

Perceiving the environment automatically informs how we can interact with it through affordance mechanisms. However, it remains unknown how our knowledge about the environment shapes how it is perceived. In this training study, we evaluated whether motor and function knowledge about novel objects affects visual object processing.

Author Correction: Holocene centennial to millennial shifts in North-Atlantic storminess and ocean dynamics.

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

Labels strengthen motor learning of new tools.

Recent reformulations of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis have shown how labels can guide our thinking in situations of uncertainty, facilitating the identification of objects. We examine whether the effect of labels extends beyond perceptual processes, to help us learn the motoric manipulations required to use novel tools. Exploiting immersive virtual reality, we measured behavioural movement latencies and electrophysiological activity from participants learning to use a range of labeled and unlabeled novel tools.