University of Applied Sciences Erfurt

Signals of Communicative Intent Enhance the Impact of Emotional Messages from Human Speakers, While Effects for Robots are Attenuated

Abstract The present work investigated humans’ responses to robots’ verbal emotional expressions. To this end, the interplay of agent characteristics and signals of communicative intent on emotional word processing was examined. In two behavioral studies (N1 = 36, N2 = 72), parti...

Cultivar‐Specific Production of Unreduced Pollen in the Ornamental Bigleaf Hydrangea ( Hydrangea macrophylla ssp. macrophylla )

ABSTRACT Unreduced gametes naturally promote polyploidization and are valuable in breeding polyploid offspring. Bigleaf hydrangea ( Hydrangea macrophylla ssp. macrophylla ), a major ornamental crop, has shown spontaneous polyploidization rates ranging from 0% to 94% in previous c...