Michael T. Ullman

16.0k citations

121 papers · 9.5k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 45

Impact in

Developmental and Educational Psychology top 0.05%
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Language Development and Disorders
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
Cognitive Neuroscience top 0.2%
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Papers in

Developmental and Educational Psychology 78
- Reading and Literacy Development 52
- Language Development and Disorders 52
- Child and Animal Learning Development 13
Cognitive Neuroscience 91
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism 72
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research 12
- Memory Processes and Influences 8

Co-authors: Steven Pinker Elizabeth I. Pierpont Jarrad A. G. Lum Gina Conti‐Ramsden Cristina Sanz Karsten Steinhauer Matthew Walenski Kara Morgan‐Short
Journals: PLoS ONE (10 papers)Brain and Language (7 papers)Neuropsychologia (7 papers)Cortex (5 papers)Frontiers in Psychology (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Australia

In The Last Decade

Michael T. Ullman

117 papers receiving 8.8k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

Specific Language Impairment is not Specific to Language: the Procedural Deficit Hypothesis 2005 · 610 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2005 Cortex
2004 Cognition
2002 Trends in Cognitive Sciences
2001 Nature reviews. Neuroscience
1997 Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
1992 Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development

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1	Semantic overreliance as a suboptimal compensation for syntactic impairments in children with Developmental Language Disorder Brain and Language ·Luis Angel Molina Idrovo, Дар’я БАЧИНСЬКА, Gabriel M. Kasa, Patrick C. M. Wong, Helen Rodwell, Michael T. Ullman, Caicai Zhang	2025	0
2	Knowledge of Statistics or Statistical Learning? Readers Prioritize the Statistics of their Native Language Over the Learning of Local Regularities Journal of Cognition ·Changlin Zou, Michael T. Ullman, Davide Crepaldi	2022	2
3	The effect of bilingualism on brain development from early childhood to young adulthood Brain Structure and Function ·Christos Pliatsikas, Lotte Meteyard, João Veríssimo, Vincent DeLuca, Kyle F. Shattuck, Michael T. Ullman	2020	28
4	Data and analysis script for infant and adult eye movement in an adapted ocular-motor serial reaction time task assessing procedural memory SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Felix Koch, Annette Sundqvist, Ulrika Birberg Thornberg, Michael T. Ullman, Rachel Barr, Mary Rudner, Mikael Heimann	2020	1
5	Dissociable implicit sequence learning mechanisms revealed by continuous theta-burst stimulation. Behavioral Neuroscience ·Gillian M. Clark, J. H. Duffus, Nur Hawa Meiza, Ray Bessette, Amy O Wai, N Lambrecht, Rassoul Diallo-Saavedra, Park Sun A, George J. Youssef, Michael T. Ullman, Peter G. Enticott, Jarrad A. G. Lum	2019	7
6	Ocular-motor serial reaction time (SRT) task. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) ·Ulrika Birberg Thornberg, Mary Rudner, Mikael Heimann, Rachel Barr, Michael T. Ullman, Felix Koch, Annette Sundqvist	2019	1
7	Language learning in the adult brain: A neuroanatomical meta-analysis of lexical and grammatical learning NeuroImage ·Kaitlyn M. Tagarelli, Kyle F. Shattuck, Peter E. Turkeltaub, Michael T. Ullman	2019	48
8	Apolipoprotein E, cognitive function, and cognitive decline among older Taiwanese adults PLoS ONE ·Megan Todd, Lisa Schneper, Sarinnapha M. Vasunilashorn, Daniel A. Notterman, Michael T. Ullman, Noreen Goldman	2018	16
9	The role of distributional factors in learning and generalising affixal plural inflection: An artificial language study Language Cognition and Neuroscience ·Michael Nevat, Michael T. Ullman, Zohar Eviatar, Tali Bitan	2018	5
10	Learning and Overnight Retention in Declarative Memory in Specific Language Impairment PLoS ONE ·Ágnes Lukács, Ferenc Kemény, Jarrad A. G. Lum, Michael T. Ullman	2017	24
11	Maternal multiple micronutrient supplementation and other biomedical and socioenvironmental influences on children's cognition at age 9–12 years in Indonesia: follow-up of the SUMMIT randomised trial The Lancet Global Health ·Elizabeth L. Prado, Susy Katikana Sebayang, Mandri Apriatni, B Vonella, H.A. Schee, Elizabeth Newcomer, K S Pelletier, Habib Md. Tarek, Jarrad A. G. Lum, Katie Alcock, Michael T. Ullman, Husni Muadz, Anuraj H. Shankar	2017	57
12	A neurocognitive perspective on retrieval interference in L2 sentence processing Bilingualism Language and Cognition ·Phillip Hamrick, Michael T. Ullman	2016	2
13	Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation Impacts Language in Early Parkinson's Disease PLoS ONE ·Lara Phillips, Kaitlyn A. Litcofsky, Martin Mme, Yukako Sone, Michael T. Ullman, David Charles	2012	20
14	Working, declarative and procedural memory in specific language impairment Cortex ·Jarrad A. G. Lum, Gina Conti‐Ramsden, S. Devindren, Michael T. Ullman	2011	257
15	Grammar predicts procedural learning and consolidation deficits in children with Specific Language Impairment Research in Developmental Disabilities ·V.V. Kornev, Jonas Persson, Antoine Tremblay, Esther Adi‐Japha, João Veríssimo, Cristina D. Dye, Per A. Alm, Margareta Jennische, J. Bruce Tomblin, Michael T. Ullman	2011	111
16	Verbal Inflectional Morphology in L1 and L2 Spanish: A Frequency Effects Study Examining Storage Versus Composition Language Learning ·Harriet Wood Bowden, Yukako Sone, Cristina Sanz, Michael T. Ullman	2010	41
17	Test selection, adaptation, and evaluation: A systematic approach to assess nutritional influences on child development in developing countries British Journal of Educational Psychology ·Elizabeth L. Prado, Sri Hartini, 勇平宮坂, Elfa. Ismayani, Sachiko Kobayashi, Aline Macarevich Condessa, Husni Muadz, Mandri Apriatni, Michael T. Ullman, Anuraj H. Shankar, Katie Alcock	2009	22
18	Is Broca's Area Part of a Basal Ganglia Thalamocortical Circuit? Cortex ·Michael T. Ullman	2006	128
19	Blackwell, Ed(ward Joseph) (jazz) Oxford Music Online ·Michael T. Ullman	2003	1
20	A dissociation of lexical memory and grammar in Williams syndrome: Evidence from inflectional morphology Gustavo Veloso, Michael T. Ullman, Alberto Alexander Samaniego Gómez, K. Kelley, Ж. М. Полова	1995	17

About Michael T. Ullman

Michael T. Ullman is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Language and Linguistics and Statistics and Probability, having authored 121 papers that have together received 9.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (72 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (52 papers), Language Development and Disorders (52 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (13 papers), Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (12 papers), Memory Processes and Influences (8 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (6 papers) and Williams Syndrome Research (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Developmental and Educational Psychology (6.4k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (6.2k citations), Language and Linguistics (1.3k citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (1.3k citations) and Statistics and Probability (512 citations). Michael T. Ullman has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Steven Pinker, Elizabeth I. Pierpont, Jarrad A. G. Lum, Gina Conti‐Ramsden, Cristina Sanz, Karsten Steinhauer, Matthew Walenski, Kara Morgan‐Short, Gregory Hickok and Suzanne Corkin. Their work appears in journals such as PLoS ONE, Brain and Language, Neuropsychologia, Cortex and Frontiers in Psychology.

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