Michael T. Ullman (born July 29, 1962, San Francisco, California) is an American neuroscientist whose main field of research is the relationship between language, memory and the brain. He is best known for his Declarative/Procedural model of language.Ullman, M.T. (2004) Contributions of memory circuits to language: the declarative/procedural model. Cognition. 92. pp. 231–270. Ullman, M. T., Corkin, S., Coppola, M., Hickok, G., Growdon, J. H., Koroshetz, W. J. Pinker, S. (1997). The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol 9, 266–276 Ullman, M. T. (2001). A neurocognitive perspective on language: The declarative/procedural model. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2, 717–726.
Early life and career Ullman was born in San Francisco, California. He is an alumnus of the French American International School and Lowell High School (1976–1980), both in San Francisco. He received his BA in computer science from Harvard University in 1988 and his PhD from the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. Ullman is currently a full professor at Georgetown University.Michael T. Ullman's homepage at the Brain and Language Lab, Georgetown University His primary appointment is in the Department of Neuroscience (Georgetown University Medical Center), with secondary appointments in the Departments of Linguistics, Neurology and Psychology.Department of Psychology, Georgetown University He is the founding director of the Brain and Language Lab, founding co-director of the Center for the Brain Basis of Cognition, and founding director of the Georgetown Cognitive Neuroscience EEG/ERP Center.Georgetown Cognitive Neuroscience EEG/ERP Center He was a Presidential Columnist for American Psychological Society Observer in 2005.Ullman, M., T. (2005). More Is Sometimes More: Redundant mechanisms in the mind and brain. APS Observeer, Volume 18, Number 12. He currently lives in Washington D.C., with his daughter Clementina Ullman.
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External links Homepage at Georgetown University Brain and Language Lab at Georgetown University Center for the Brain Basis of Cognition at Georgetown University