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Ullman, M. T. (In Press). The role of memory systems in disorders of language. In B. Stemmer & H. A. Whitaker (Eds.), Handbook of the Neuroscience of Language. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Ltd.

Ullman, M. T., R. A. Miranda, et al. (2008). Sex differences in the neurocognition of language. In J. B. Becker, K. J. Berkley, N. Gearyet al. (Eds.), Sex on the Brain: From Genes to Behavior. NY NY, Oxford University Press: 291-309.

Walenski, M., Mostofsky, S. H., Gidley-Larson, J. C., & Ullman, M. T. (2007). Brief Report: Enhanced Picture Naming in Autism. Journal of Autism Developmental Disorders.

Ullman, M. T. (2007). The biocognition of the mental lexicon. In M. G. Gaskell (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics (pp. 267-286). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Miranda, R.A., Ullman, M.T. (2007) Double dissociation between rules and memory in music: An event-related potential study, NeuroImage, 38(2), 331-345.

Walenski, M., Mostofsky, S. H., & Ullman, M. T. (2007). Speeded processing of grammar and tool knowledge in Tourette's syndrome. Neuropsychologia, 45, 24472460.

Newman, A. J., Ullman, M. T., Pancheva, R., Waligura, D. L., & Neville, H. J. (2007). An ERP study of regular and irregular English past tense inflection. Neuroimage, 34, 435-445.

Walenski, M., Tager-Flusberg, H., and Ullman, M. T. (2006). Language in Autism. In S. O. Moldin and J. L. R. Rubenstein (Eds.), Understanding Autism: From Basic Neuroscience to Treatment. Boca Raton, FL: Taylor and Francis Books.

Ullman, M. T. (2006). The Declarative/Procedural Model and the Shallow-Structure Hypothesis. Applied Psycholinguistics, 27(1), 97-105. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. (commentary on target article by H. Clahsen and C. Felser)

Ullman, M.T. (2006). Is Broca's area part of a basal ganglia thalamocortical circuit? Cortex, 42, 480-485. (special issue on "Integrative models of Broca's and the ventral premotor cortex", edited by R. Schubotz and C. Fiebach)

Ullman, M. T. (2006). Language and the brain. In J. Connor-Linton and R. W. Fasold (Eds.), An Introduction to Language and Linguistics (pp. 235-274). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Hartshorne, J. K., and Ullman, M. T. (2006). Why girls say "holded" more than boys. Developmental Science, 9(1), 21-32.

Ullman, M. T. (2005). A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective on Second Language Acquisition: The Declarative/Procedural Model. In C. Sanz (Ed.), Mind and Context in Adult Second Language Acquisition: Methods, Theory, and Practice (pp. 141-178). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Ullman, M. T. (2005). More is sometimes more: Redundant mechanisms in the mind and brain. Observer, 18(12), 7, 46. (invited Presidential Column)

Ullman, M. T., Pancheva, R., Love, T., Yee, E., Swinney, D., Hickok, G. (2005). Neural correlates of lexicon and grammar: Evidence from the production, reading, and judgment of inflection in aphasia. Brain and Language, 93(2), 185-238.

MacWhinney, B. (2005). Commentary on Ullman et al. Brain and Language, 93(2), 239-242.

Embick, D., and Marantz, A. (2005). Cognitive neuroscience and the English past tense: Comments on the paper by Ullman et al. Brain and Language, 93(2), 243-247.

Ullman, M. T., and Walenski, M. (2005). Reply: Moving Past the Past Tense. Brain and Language, 93(2), 248-252.

Ullman, M. T., and Pierpont, E. I. (2005). Specific language impairment is not specific to language: The procedural deficit hypothesis. Cortex, 41(3), 399-433. (special issue on "The neurobiology of developmental disorders", edited by D. Bishop, M. Eckert and C. Leonard)

Accompanying commentary requested by the editors:
Thomas, M. S. C. (2005). Characterising Compensation. Cortex, 41(3), 434-442.

Brovetto, C., and Ullman, M. T. (2005) The Mental Representation and Processing of Spanish Verbal Morphology. In D. Eddington (ed.), Selected Proceedings of the 7th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. (pp. 98-105). Cascadilla Press, Somerville, MA.

Walenski, M., and Ullman, M. T. (2005). The science of language. The Linguistic Review, 22, 327-346.

Ullman, M. T. (2004). Contributions of neural memory circuits to language: The declarative/procedural model. Cognition, 92(1-2), 231-270.

Drury, J. E. and Ullman, M. T. (2002). The memorization of complex forms in aphasia: Implications for recovery. Brain and Language, 83, 139-141.

Estabrooke, I. V., Mordecai, K., Maki, P., and Ullman, M. T. (2002). The effect of sex hormones on language processing. Brain and Language, 83, 143-146.

Pinker, S., and Ullman, M. T. (2002). The past and future of the past tense. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6(11), 456-463.

This article was accompanied by three other articles in the same issue. Together the four articles constitute a debate on the neural and computational bases of inflectional morphology, as a case study of the neurocognition of language. The three other articles were:

McClelland, J. L. and Patterson, K. (2002). Rules or connections in past-tense inflections: what does the evidence rule out? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6(11), 465-472.

Pinker, S., and Ullman, M. T. (2002). Combination and structure, not gradedness, is the issue: Reply to McClelland and Patterson. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6(11), 472-474.

McClelland, J. L. (2002). "Words or Rules" cannot exploit the regularity in exceptions: Reply to Pinker and Ullman. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6(11), 464-465.

The articles by Pinker & Ullman and McClelland & Patterson engendered several commentaries and responses:

Seidenberg, M., and Joanisse, M. (2003). Show us the model. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(3), 106-107.

Ramscar, M. (2003). The past-tense debate: exocentric form versus the evidence. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(3), 107-108.

Pinker, S., and Ullman, M. (2003). Beyond one model per phenomenon. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(3), 108-109.

Marslen-Wilson, W., and Tyler, L. (2003). Capturing underlying differentiation in the human language system. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(2), 62-63.

McClelland, J., and Patterson, K. (2003). Differentiation and integration in human language: Reply to Marslen-Wilson and Tyler. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(2), 63-64.

Steinhauer, K. and Ullman, M. T. (2002). Consecutive ERP effects of morpho-phonology and morpho-syntax. Brain and Language, 83, 62-65.

Ullman, M. T., Estabrooke, I. V., Steinhauer, K., Brovetto, C., Pancheva, R., Ozawa, K., Mordecai, K., Maki, P. (2002). Sex differences in the neurocognition of language. Brain and Language, 83, 141-143.

Kensinger, E. A., Ullman, M. T., and Corkin, S. (2001). Bilateral medial temporal lobe damage does not affect lexical or grammatical processing: Evidence from the amnesic patient H. M. Hippocampus, 11(4), 347-360.

Newman, A. J., Pancheva, R., Ozawa, K., Neville, H. J., and Ullman, M. T. (2001). An event-related fmri study of syntactic and semantic violations. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 30(3), 339-364.

Steinhauer, K., Pancheva, R., Newman, A. J., Gennari, S., and Ullman, M. T. (2001). How the mass counts: An electrophysiological approach to the processing of lexical features. Neuroreport, 12(5), 999-1005.

Ullman, M. T. (2001). The declarative/procedural model of lexicon and grammar. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 30(1), 37-69.

Ullman, M. T. (2001). The neural basis of lexicon and grammar in first and second language: The declarative/procedural model. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 4(1), 105-122.

Ullman, M. T. (2001). A neurocognitive perspective on language: The declarative/procedural model. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2, 717-726.

van der Lely, H. K. J., and Ullman, M. T. (2001). Past tense morphology in specifically language impaired and normally developing children. Language and Cognitive Processes, 16(2), 177-217.

Ullman, M. T., and Izvorski, R. (2000). What is special about broca's area? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23(1), 52-54.

Ullman, M. T., and Gopnik, M. (1999). Inflectional morphology in a family with inherited specific language impairment. Applied Psycholinguistics, 20(1), 51-117.

Ullman, M. T. (1999). The functional neuroanatomy of inflectional morphology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(6), 1041-1042.

Ullman, M. T. (1999). Acceptability ratings of regular and irregular past tense forms: Evidence for a dual-system model of language from word frequency and phonological neighbourhood effects. Language and Cognitive Processes, 14(1), 47-67.

Ullman, M. T. (1999). Naming tools and using rules: Evidence that a frontal/basal-ganglia system underlies both motor skill knowledge and grammatical rule use. Brain and Language, 69(3), 316-318.

Izvorski, R. and Ullman, M. T. (1999). Verb inflection and the hierarchy of functional categories in agrammatic anterior aphasia. Brain and Language, 69(3), 288-291.

Ullman, M. T., Corkin, S., Coppola, M., Hickok, M., Growdon, J. H., Koroshetz, W. J., and Pinker, S. (1997). A neural dissociation within language: Evidence that the mental dictiorary is part of declarative memory, and that grammatical rules are processed by the procedural system. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 9(2), 266-276.


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