Michael T Ullman
Biographic Data
| ID | 942828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael T Ullman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael T |
| FAMILY NAME | Ullman |
| SIGNATURE | ULLMAN M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9037-3537 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Semantic overreliance as a suboptimal compensation for syntactic impairments in children with Developmental Language Disorder
The neurocognitive dynamics of semantic-syntactic interplay are not well understood in children with and without Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). This study examined the N400, P600 and their interplay in Cantonese-speaking children with DLD and age-matched typically developing (TD) children, by manipulating semantic and syntactic violations in Chinese classifier-noun agreement. Behaviorally, children with DLD demonstrated overall lower accu…
Lexical Effects on Second Language Grammar Acquisition: Testing Psycholinguistic and Neurocognitive Predictions
Second language (L2) grammar learning is difficult. Two frameworks-the psycholinguistic lexical bottleneck hypothesis and the neurocognitive declarative/procedural model-predict that faster L2 lexical processing should facilitate L2 incidental grammar learning. We tested these predictions in a pretest-posttest syntactic adaptation study of English relative-clause attachment preferences. First-language German speakers listened to relative clauses …
Hijacking limitations of working memory load to test for composition in language
The neuroanatomy of developmental language disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Aging affects steaks more than knives: Evidence that the processing of words related to motor skills is relatively spared in aging
Maternal depression is the predominant persistent risk for child cognitive and social-emotional problems from early childhood to pre-adolescence: A longitudinal cohort study
Our findings confirm those of previous studies that prevention of risk exposures during early childhood is likely to support long-term child development. It also adds evidence to a previously scarce literature for the middle childhood period. Prevention of maternal depressive symptoms and child anemia during middle childhood should be assessed for effectiveness to support child development
Evidence that ageing yields improvements as well as declines across attention and executive functions
Implications of the declarative/procedural model for improving second language learning: The role of memory enhancement techniques
The declarative/procedural (DP) model posits that the learning, storage, and use of language critically depend on two learning and memory systems in the brain: declarative memory and procedural memory. Thus, on the basis of independent research on the memory systems, the model can generate specific and often novel predictions for language. Till now most such predictions and ensuing empirical work have been motivated by research on the neurocognit…
The role of declarative and procedural memory in disorders of language
Language is often assumed to rely on domain-specific neurocognitive substrates. However, this human capacity in fact seems to crucially depend on general-purpose memory systems in the brain. Evidence suggests that lexical memory relies heavily on declarative memory, which is specialized for arbitrary associations and is rooted in temporal lobe structures. The mental grammar instead relies largely on procedural memory, a system that underlies rule…
Explicit and Implicit Second Language Training Differentially Affect the Achievement of Native-like Brain Activation Patterns
It is widely believed that adults cannot learn a foreign language in the same way that children learn a first language. However, recent evidence suggests that adult learners of a foreign language can come to rely on native-like language brain mechanisms. Here, we show that the type of language training crucially impacts this outcome. We used an artificial language paradigm to examine longitudinally whether explicit training (that approximates tra…
Test selection, adaptation, and evaluation: A systematic approach to assess nutritional influences on child development in developing countries
BackgroundEvaluating the impact of nutrition interventions on developmental outcomes in developing countries can be challenging since most assessment tests have been produced in and for developed country settings. Such tests may not be valid measures of children's abilities when used in a new context.AimsWe present several principles for the selection, adaptation, and evaluation of tests assessing the developmental outcomes of nutrition intervent…
Second Language Acquisition of Gender Agreement in Explicit and Implicit Training Conditions: An Event-Related Potential Study
This study employed an artificial language learning paradigm together with a combined behavioral/event-related potential (ERP) approach to examine the neurocognition of the processing of gender agreement, an aspect of inflectional morphology that is problematic in adult second language (L2) learning. Subjects learned to speak and comprehend an artificial language under either explicit (classroomlike) or implicit (immersionlike) training condition…
Verbal Inflectional Morphology in L1 and L2 Spanish: A Frequency Effects Study Examining Storage Versus Composition
This study examines the storage versus composition of Spanish inflected verbal forms in first language (L1) and second language (L2) speakers of Spanish. L2 participants were selected to have mid-to-advanced proficiency, high classroom experience, and low immersion experience, typical of medium-to-advanced foreign language learners. Participants were shown the infinitival forms of verbs from either Class I (the default class, which takes new verb…
Specific Language Impairment is not Specific to Language: The Procedural Deficit Hypothesis
The science of language
The study of language is currently fractionated. Theoretical linguistics has largely ignored advances in psycholinguistics, which in turn remains largely unconstrained by advances in neurolinguistics. Moreover, all of these fields generally work in isolation from the study of other cognitive functions. This fractionation has resulted in an enormous loss of useful information, seriously impeding progress in the study of language. To achieve a full…
Cyrille, Andrew (jazz)
Fields, Herbie (jazz)
Davis, Art(hur D.)
Daniels, Eddie
Murray, Sunny (jazz)
Graves, Milford
Blackwell, Ed(ward Joseph) (jazz)
Jones, Philly Joe
Perkins, Bill
The past and future of the past tense
The Declarative/Procedural Model of Lexicon and Grammar
Second Language Acquisition of Gender Agreement in Explicit and Implicit Training Conditions: An Event-Related Potential Study
This study employed an artificial language learning paradigm together with a combined behavioral/event-related potential (ERP) approach to examine the neurocognition of the processing of gender agreement, an aspect of inflectional morphology that is problematic in adult second language (L2) learning. Subjects learned to speak and comprehend an artificial language under either explicit (classroomlike) or implicit (immersionlike) training condition…
Evidence that ageing yields improvements as well as declines across attention and executive functions
Implications of the declarative/procedural model for improving second language learning: The role of memory enhancement techniques
The declarative/procedural (DP) model posits that the learning, storage, and use of language critically depend on two learning and memory systems in the brain: declarative memory and procedural memory. Thus, on the basis of independent research on the memory systems, the model can generate specific and often novel predictions for language. Till now most such predictions and ensuing empirical work have been motivated by research on the neurocognit…
Verbal Inflectional Morphology in L1 and L2 Spanish: A Frequency Effects Study Examining Storage Versus Composition
This study examines the storage versus composition of Spanish inflected verbal forms in first language (L1) and second language (L2) speakers of Spanish. L2 participants were selected to have mid-to-advanced proficiency, high classroom experience, and low immersion experience, typical of medium-to-advanced foreign language learners. Participants were shown the infinitival forms of verbs from either Class I (the default class, which takes new verb…
An Event-Related fMRI Study of Syntactic and Semantic Violations
Maternal depression is the predominant persistent risk for child cognitive and social-emotional problems from early childhood to pre-adolescence: A longitudinal cohort study
Our findings confirm those of previous studies that prevention of risk exposures during early childhood is likely to support long-term child development. It also adds evidence to a previously scarce literature for the middle childhood period. Prevention of maternal depressive symptoms and child anemia during middle childhood should be assessed for effectiveness to support child development
Test selection, adaptation, and evaluation: A systematic approach to assess nutritional influences on child development in developing countries
BackgroundEvaluating the impact of nutrition interventions on developmental outcomes in developing countries can be challenging since most assessment tests have been produced in and for developed country settings. Such tests may not be valid measures of children's abilities when used in a new context.AimsWe present several principles for the selection, adaptation, and evaluation of tests assessing the developmental outcomes of nutrition intervent…
To Be or Not to Bop
Overregularization in Language Acquisition
Children extend regular grammatical patterns to irregular words, resulting in overregularizations like comed, often after a period of correct performance ("U-shaped development"). The errors seem paradigmatic of rule use, hence bear on central issues in the psychology of rules: how creative rule application interacts with memorized exceptions in development, how overgeneral rules are unlearned in the absence of parental feedback, and whether cogn…
Murray, Sunny
The neural basis of lexicon and grammar in first and second language: The declarative/procedural model
Theoretical and empirical aspects of the neural bases of the mental lexicon and the mental grammar in first and second language (L1 and L2) are discussed. It is argued that in L1, the learning, representation, and processing of lexicon and grammar depend on two well-studied brain memory systems. According to the declarative/procedural model, lexical memory depends upon declarative memory, which is rooted in temporal lobe structures, and has been …
The Declarative/Procedural Model of Lexicon and Grammar
An Event-Related fMRI Study of Syntactic and Semantic Violations
The past and future of the past tense
Cyrille, Andrew (jazz)
Fields, Herbie (jazz)
Davis, Art(hur D.)
Daniels, Eddie
Murray, Sunny (jazz)
Graves, Milford
Blackwell, Ed(ward Joseph) (jazz)
Jones, Philly Joe
Perkins, Bill
Specific Language Impairment is not Specific to Language: The Procedural Deficit Hypothesis
The science of language
The study of language is currently fractionated. Theoretical linguistics has largely ignored advances in psycholinguistics, which in turn remains largely unconstrained by advances in neurolinguistics. Moreover, all of these fields generally work in isolation from the study of other cognitive functions. This fractionation has resulted in an enormous loss of useful information, seriously impeding progress in the study of language. To achieve a full…
Test selection, adaptation, and evaluation: A systematic approach to assess nutritional influences on child development in developing countries
BackgroundEvaluating the impact of nutrition interventions on developmental outcomes in developing countries can be challenging since most assessment tests have been produced in and for developed country settings. Such tests may not be valid measures of children's abilities when used in a new context.AimsWe present several principles for the selection, adaptation, and evaluation of tests assessing the developmental outcomes of nutrition intervent…
Second Language Acquisition of Gender Agreement in Explicit and Implicit Training Conditions: An Event-Related Potential Study
This study employed an artificial language learning paradigm together with a combined behavioral/event-related potential (ERP) approach to examine the neurocognition of the processing of gender agreement, an aspect of inflectional morphology that is problematic in adult second language (L2) learning. Subjects learned to speak and comprehend an artificial language under either explicit (classroomlike) or implicit (immersionlike) training condition…
Verbal Inflectional Morphology in L1 and L2 Spanish: A Frequency Effects Study Examining Storage Versus Composition
This study examines the storage versus composition of Spanish inflected verbal forms in first language (L1) and second language (L2) speakers of Spanish. L2 participants were selected to have mid-to-advanced proficiency, high classroom experience, and low immersion experience, typical of medium-to-advanced foreign language learners. Participants were shown the infinitival forms of verbs from either Class I (the default class, which takes new verb…
Explicit and Implicit Second Language Training Differentially Affect the Achievement of Native-like Brain Activation Patterns
It is widely believed that adults cannot learn a foreign language in the same way that children learn a first language. However, recent evidence suggests that adult learners of a foreign language can come to rely on native-like language brain mechanisms. Here, we show that the type of language training crucially impacts this outcome. We used an artificial language paradigm to examine longitudinally whether explicit training (that approximates tra…
The role of declarative and procedural memory in disorders of language
Language is often assumed to rely on domain-specific neurocognitive substrates. However, this human capacity in fact seems to crucially depend on general-purpose memory systems in the brain. Evidence suggests that lexical memory relies heavily on declarative memory, which is specialized for arbitrary associations and is rooted in temporal lobe structures. The mental grammar instead relies largely on procedural memory, a system that underlies rule…
Implications of the declarative/procedural model for improving second language learning: The role of memory enhancement techniques
The declarative/procedural (DP) model posits that the learning, storage, and use of language critically depend on two learning and memory systems in the brain: declarative memory and procedural memory. Thus, on the basis of independent research on the memory systems, the model can generate specific and often novel predictions for language. Till now most such predictions and ensuing empirical work have been motivated by research on the neurocognit…
Aging affects steaks more than knives: Evidence that the processing of words related to motor skills is relatively spared in aging
Psychology (21 works) · Cognition (16 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (15 works) · Cognitive psychology (13 works) · Linguistics (13 works) · Language Development and Disorders (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (10 works) · Neuroscience (9 works) · Art (6 works)