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1. Additional Methods and Analyses for “Who gets mentioned next? The answer depends on the experimental task

   Arnold, J. E.; Zerkle, S.A. (January 2021, UNC Language Processing Lab Technical Report #5)

   Arnold, J. E., & Zerkle, S. A. (2021). Additional Methods and Analyses for “Who gets mentioned next? The answer depends on the experimental task.” Technical Report #5. UNC Language Processing Lab, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 

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2. Individual differences (or the lack of them) in comprehension of singular they.

   Arnold, J. E.; Mayo, H.; Dong, L. (January 2020, UNC Language Processing Lab Technical Report #3)

   Arnold, J. E., Mayo, H., & Dong, L. (2020). Individual differences (or the lack of them) in comprehension of singular they. Technical Report #3. UNC Language Processing Lab, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The pronoun “they” can refer to an individual who identifies as nonbinary, but it also is commonly used as a plural pronoun. How do listeners identify whether “they” is being used in a singular or plural sense? Arnold, Mayo, & Dong (in press) report three experiments in that test the role of explicitly introducing gender identity via pronouns, e.g. “This is Alex, and they use they/them pronouns.” Participants read short stories like “Alex went running with Liz and they fell down.” Answers to “Who fell down” indicated whether participants interpreted they as Alex or Alex-and-Liz. Singular interpretations of they were more likely when participants hear an explicit statement that Alex uses they/them pronouns, and in supporting discourse contexts. This paper is a companion to the main article, and reports analyses of individual difference measures. Participants self-reported familiarity with individuals who identify as nonbinary, which was expected to increase singular interpretations, but mostly it did not. In experiment 2 we also measured print exposure, but we found that it did not affect interpretation of singular they. In short, we saw virtually no effects of individual difference predictors. 

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3. Seabed grain-size data from Harrison Bay (Beaufort Sea continental shelf), Alaska 2021

   https://doi.org/10.18739/A2JW86P50  

   Eidam, Emily (January 2023, NSF Arctic Data Center)

   This file contains grain-size data from seabed shipek grab samples collected from R/V Ukpik in summer 2021 as part of NSF project 1913195 (Arctic Shelf sediment fate – an observational and modeling study of sediment pathways and morphodynamic feedbacks in a changing polar environment). Samples were collected from across Harrison Bay on the Alaskan Beaufort Shelf, north of the Colville River and between Oliktok Point and Cape Halkett. Samples were bagged in the field and returned to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where grain-size analyses were performed using an Escitec Bettersizer S3Plus laser diffraction sensor. Samples were sonicated for two minutes prior to analyses. Samples ranged from well sorted sands (typically medium sand or fine) to poorly sorted bimodal sands and muds to unimodal muds. In the field, samples exhibited diverse textures including mud clasts and very stiff muds. 

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4. Individual Differences in Print Exposure Predict Use of Implicit Causality in Pronoun Comprehension and Referential Prediction

   https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.672109  

   Johnson, Elyce; Arnold, Jennifer E. (July 2021, Frontiers in Psychology)

   In three experiments, we measured individual patterns of pronoun comprehension (Experiments 1 and 2) and referential prediction (Experiment 3) in implicit causality (IC) contexts and compared these with a measure of participants’ print exposure (Author Recognition Task; ART). Across all three experiments, we found that ART interacted with verb bias, such that participants with higher scores demonstrated a stronger semantic bias, i.e., they tended to select the pronoun or predict the re-mention of the character that was congruent with an implicit cause interpretation. This suggests that print exposure changes the way language is processed at the discourse level, and in particular, that it is related to implicit cause sensitivity. 

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5. Correlation between socioeconomic disadvantage in preschool children and brain organization: a functional NIRS connectivity study

   https://doi.org/10.1364/BRAIN.2021.BW4B.5  

   Burgess, Allie; Hernandez, Samuel Montero; Li, Xinge; Bick, Johanna; Pollonini, Luca (April 2021, Optical Society of America (OSA) Biophotonics Congress 2021)

   C. Boudoux, K. Maitland (Ed.)

   Socioeconomic status (SES) has been shown to be related to brain development and cognitive performance. We present a functional NIRS connectivity analysis in children with different SES during a working memory task. 

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