2026 Michael T. Ullman: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	59	3644	3360	2045	1843	135	20627

Overview

Michael T. Ullman is affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, contributing 28 and 22 publications to these areas, respectively.

Their work encompasses several subfields, notably Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology, each containing 22 publications. Additional subfields of focus include Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Social Psychology.

Key research topics addressed by Ullman include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Reading and Literacy Development, and Language Development and Disorders. Other themes involve Memory Processes and Influences, Child and Animal Learning Development, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, and Action Observation and Synchronization.

Michael T. Ullman has authored multiple recent papers, including:

"Evidence that ageing yields improvements as well as declines across attention and executive functions" (2021) published in Nature Human Behaviour
"Subcortical Cognition: The Fruit Below the Rind" (2022) published in Annual Review of Neuroscience
"The effect of bilingualism on brain development from early childhood to young adulthood" (2020) published in Brain Structure and Function
"Deficits of Learning in Procedural Memory and Consolidation in Declarative Memory in Adults With Developmental Language Disorder" (2021) published in Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
"Early-life education may help bolster declarative memory in old age, especially for women" (2020) published in Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition

They frequently collaborate with several researchers, including João Veríssimo, F. Sayako Earle, Jana Reifegerste, Noreen Goldman, and Maxine Weinstein. The frequency of collaboration varies, with seven publications alongside João Veríssimo and six with F. Sayako Earle.

Ullman's work has been published in a variety of scientific venues, with multiple contributions particularly to Nature Human Behaviour. Other common publication venues include Brain and Language, Frontiers in Psychology, Annual Review of Neuroscience, and Brain Structure and Function.

Best Publications

Contributions of memory circuits to language: the declarative/procedural model

Michael T Ullman

2381
Citations
Overregularization in Language Acquisition

Marcus Gf;Pinker S;Ullman M;Hollander M

1531
Citations
The past and future of the past tense

Steven Pinker;Michael T. Ullman

1323
Citations
A neural dissociation within language: Evidence that the mental dictionary is part of declarative memory, and that grammatical rules are processed by the procedural system

Michael T. Ullman;Suzanne Corkin;Marie Coppola;Gregory Hickok

1240
Citations
A neurocognitive perspective on language: the declarative/procedural model.

Michael T. Ullman

1240
Citations
The neural basis of lexicon and grammar in first and second language: the declarative/procedural model

Michael T. Ullman

1233
Citations
Specific language impairment is not specific to language: The procedural deficit hypothesis

Michael T. Ullman;Elizabeth I. Pierpont

1201
Citations
The declarative/procedural model of lexicon and grammar.

Michael T. Ullman

871
Citations
Working, declarative and procedural memory in specific language impairment.

Jarrad A.G. Lum;Gina Conti-Ramsden;Debra Page;Michael T. Ullman

466
Citations
Explicit and implicit second language training differentially affect the achievement of native-like brain activation patterns

Kara Morgan-Short;Karsten Steinhauer;Cristina Sanz;Michael T. Ullman

373
Citations
Past tense morphology in specifically language impaired and normally developing children

Heather K.J. van der Lely;Michael T. Ullman

350
Citations
The Declarative/Procedural Model: A Neurobiological Model of Language Learning, Knowledge, and Use

Michael T. Ullman

334
Citations
Neural correlates of lexicon and grammar: evidence from the production, reading, and judgment of inflection in aphasia.

Michael T. Ullman;Roumyana Pancheva;Roumyana Pancheva;Tracy Love;Eiling Yee;Eiling Yee

316
Citations
An Event-Related fMRI Study of Syntactic and Semantic Violations

Aaron J. Newman;Roumyana Pancheva;Roumyana Pancheva;Kaori Ozawa;Helen J. Neville

315
Citations
Second Language Acquisition of Gender Agreement in Explicit and Implicit Training Conditions: An Event-Related Potential Study

Kara Morgan-Short;Cristina Sanz;Karsten Steinhauer;Michael T. Ullman

304
Citations
Is Broca's area part of a basal ganglia thalamocortical circuit?

Michael T. Ullman

293
Citations
A compensatory role for declarative memory in neurodevelopmental disorders.

Michael T. Ullman;Mariel Y. Pullman

276
Citations
Sleep has no critical role in implicit motor sequence learning in young and old adults.

Dezso Nemeth;Dezso Nemeth;Karolina Janacsek;Zsuzsa Londe;Michael T. Ullman

274
Citations
Procedural learning is impaired in dyslexia: evidence from a meta-analysis of serial reaction time studies.

Jarrad A.G. Lum;Michael T. Ullman;Gina Conti-Ramsden

244
Citations
Acceptability Ratings of Regular and Irregular Past-tense Forms: Evidence for a Dual-system Model of Language from Word Frequency and Phonological Neighbourhood Effects

Michael T. Ullman

238
Citations
The Past-Tense Debate The past and future of the past tense

Steven Pinker;Michael T. Ullman

19
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jarrad A. G. Lum Deakin University

Karolina Janacsek Eötvös Loránd University

Dezso Nemeth Eötvös Loránd University

Steven Pinker Harvard University

Stewart H. Mostofsky Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Gina Conti-Ramsden University of Manchester

James H. Howard Catholic University of America

Peter E. Turkeltaub Georgetown University

Rachel Barr Georgetown University

Mary Rudner Linköping University

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