Brain and Language Lab
Publications
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2024
Ullman, M. T. (in press, 2025). The Declarative/Procedural Model: A Neurobiologically-Motivated Theory of First and Second Language. In B. VanPatten, G. D. Keating, & S. Wulff (Eds.), Theories in Second Language Acquisition (4th ed.). Routledge.
Ullman, M. T., Bulut, T., & Walenski, M. (2024). Hijacking limitations of working memory load to test for composition in language. Cognition, 251, 105875. (Supplementary Material)
Hopp, H., Reifegerste, J., & Ullman, M.T. (2024, online). Lexical effects on L2 grammar acquisition: Testing psycholinguistic and neurocognitive predictions. Language Learning. (Supporting Information) (Accessible Summary)
Evans, T.M., Lipscomb, D.W., Earle, F.S., Del Tufo, S.N., Lum, J.A.G., Cutting, L.E., & Ullman, M.T. (in press, 2024). Declarative Memory Supports Children’s Math Skills: A Longitudinal Study. PLoS ONE.
Ullman, M. T., Clark, G. M., Pullman, M. Y., Lovelett, J. T., Pierpont, E. I., Jiang, X., & Turkeltaub, P. E. (2024). The neuroanatomy of developmental language disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Nature Human Behaviour, 8(5), 962-975. (Supplementary Information)
2022
Morgan-Short, K., Hamrick, P., & Ullman, M. T. (2022). Declarative and Procedural Memory as Predictors of Second Language Development. In S. Li, P. Hiver, M. Papi (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Individual Differences (pp. 67-81). (Supporting Table 1). For link to Supporting Table in Open Science Framework click HERE.
Janacsek, K., Evans, T. M., Kiss, M., Shah, L., Blumenfeld H., & Ullman, M. T. (2022). Subcortical cognition: the fruit below the rind. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 45, 361–86. (Supplemental Materials).
Veríssimo, J., Verhaeghen, P., Goldman, N., Weinstein, M., & Ullman, M. T. (2022). Evidence that ageing yields improvements as well as declines across attention and executive functions. Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 97–110. (Supplementary Information).
2020
2019
Tagarelli, K. M., Shattuck, K. F., Turkeltaub, P. E., & Ullman, M. T. (2019). Language learning in the adult brain: A neuroanatomical meta-analysis of lexical and grammatical learning. NeuroImage, 193, 178-200. (Supplementary Tables).
Pliatsikas, C., Veríssimo, J., Babcock, L., Pullman, M. Y., Glei, D. A., Weinstein, M., Goldman, N., & Ullman, M. T. (2019). Working memory in older adults declines with age, but is modulated by sex and education. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(6), 1308-1327. (Supplemental Material).
2018
Nevat, M., Ullman, M. T., Eviatar, Z., & Bitan, T. (2018). The role of distributional factors in learning and generalizing affixal plural inflection: An artificial language study. Language, Cognition & Neuroscience, 33(9), 1184-1204. (Appendix A. Appendix B.)
Takács, Á., Kóbor, A., Chezan, J., Éltető, N., Tárnok, Z., Nemeth, D., Ullman, M. T., & Janacsek, K. (2018). Is procedural memory enhanced in Tourette syndrome? Evidence from a sequence learning task. Cortex, 100, 84-94. (Supporting Information).
Hamrick, P., Lum, J. A., & Ullman, M. T. (2018). Child first language and adult second language are both tied to general-purpose learning systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(7), 1487-1492. (Supporting Information).
2017
2015
2014
2013
Ullman, M. T. (2013). The role of declarative and procedural memory in disorders of language. Linguistic Variation, 13(2), 133-154. [This paper is an updated version of Ullman, 2008, in Handbook of the Neuroscience of Language.]
Bowden, H. W., Steinhauer, K., Sanz, C., & Ullman, M. T. (2013). Native-like brain processing of syntax can be attained by university foreign language learners. Neuropsychologia, 51, 2492-2511. (Supplementary Data).
2012
2011
Ullman, M. T. (2011). EntreviSta: Michael Ullman. Revista LinguíStica, 7(2), 1-6.
Hedenius, M., Persson, J., Tremblay, A., Adi-Japha, E., Veríssimo, J., Dye, C. D., Alm, P., Jennische, M., Tomblin, J. B., & Ullman, M. T. (2011). Grammar predicts procedural learning and consolidation deficits in children with specific language impairment. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 32(6), 2362-2375.
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
Ullman, M. T. (2006). The Declarative/Procedural Model and the Shallow-Structure Hypothesis. Applied Psycholinguistics, 27(1), 97-105. [Commentary on target article by H. Clahsen and C. Felser.]
2005
MacWhinney, B. (2005). Commentary on Ullman et al. Brain and Language, 93(2), 239-242.
Accompanying commentary requested by the editors: Thomas, M. S. C. (2005). Characterising Compensation. Cortex, 41(3), 434-442.
Walenski, M., & Ullman, M. T. (2005). The science of language. The Linguistic Review, 22, 327-346.
2001-2004
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:
The articles by Pinker & Ullman and McClelland & Patterson engendered several commentaries and responses: