The Rose's garden

La première partie du Roman de la Rose se situe dans le décor du jardin de Deduit. Les détails descriptifs livrés par le poète sont repris, modifiés ou développés par les enlumineurs. Trois éléments se trouvent privilégiés par ces archi-lecteurs. Tout d'abord les différentes sortes de clôture qui, à des degrés divers, inscrivent le domaine dans la tradition du hortus conclusus. Autour de la rose éponyme, la végétation porte les marques d¿une emprise de l'homme sur la nature. La source, elle, est présentée sous des formes variées, allant de la simple surface réfléchissante à la monumentalité. On analyse pour finir deux tableaux synthétiques. L'un se souvient du jardin de l'Éden; l'autre met en scène l'Amant, mais se cantonne dans sa vision initiale d'un "lieu plesant et delitable".The background scenery in the first part of Le Roman de la Rose is that of Deduit's garden. The descriptive details provided by the poet are retrieved, modified and developed by the illuminators. These arch-readers focus on three specific elements, principally on the different kinds of enclosures which inscribe this domain within the limits of the hortus conclusus tradition. The vegetation around the eponymous rose carries the signs of human agency on nature. The fountain itself is presented under different forms, ranging from that of the simple reflecting surface to that of monumentality. Finally, this article analyses two pictures. One derives from the Garden of Eden, and the other one, nothwithstanding the presence of l'Amant, is girdled within the initial vision of a "pleasant and delightful place"

Do disinhibited eaters pay increased attention to food cues?

The Three Factors Eating Questionnaire's measure of disinhibited eating is a robust predictor of long-term weight gain. This experiment explored if disinhibited eaters display attentional bias to food cues. Participants (N = 45) completed a visual dot probe task which measured responses to food (energy dense and low energy foods) and neutral cues. Picture pairs were displayed either for a 100 ms or 2000 ms duration. All participants displayed attentional bias for energy dense food items. Indices of attentional bias were largest in disinhibited eaters. Attentional bias in disinhibited eaters appeared to be underpinned by facilitated attention

Predicting Weight Outcomes in Preadolescence: The Role of Toddlers? Self-regulation Skills and the Temperament Dimension of Pleasure

Objective To investigate the role of toddlers? self-regulation skills and temperament in predicting weight outcomes in preadolescence. Method Participants for this study included 195 children (114 girls) obtained from three different cohorts participating in a larger ongoing longitudinal study. At 2 years of age, participants participated in several laboratory tasks designed to assess their self-regulation abilities, including emotion regulation, sustained attention, and delay of gratification, while parents filled out a temperament questionnaire to assess toddlers? pleasure expression. Height and weight measures were collected when children were 4, 5, 7, and 10 years of age. Children also filled out a body image and eating questionnaire at the 10 year visit. Results Self-regulation skills in toddlers were associated with both BMI development, pediatric obesity, and body image/eating concerns. The temperament dimension of pleasure was also associated with BMI development and pediatric obesity but not body image/eating concerns. Conclusion Self-regulation difficulties across domains as well as temperament based pleasure in toddlers represented significant individual risk factors for the development of pediatric obesity eight years later. Early self-regulation difficulties also contributed to body image and eating concerns that typically accompanied overweight children. The mechanisms by which early self-regulation skills and temperament based pleasure may contribute to the development of pediatric obesity and associated weight concerns are discussed