Education
Harvard University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Harvard University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His Declarative/Procedural model of language has greatly affected the field of psycholinguistics and cognitive neuroscience. 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 Bachelor in Computer Science from Harvard University in 1988 and his Doctor of Philosophy from the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993.
Ullman is currently a full professor at 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.
He is the founding Director of the Brain and Language Laboratory, founding co-Director of the Center for the Brain Basis of Cognition, and founding Director of the Georgetown Cognitive Neuroscience Electroencephalogram/Enterprise resource planning Center. He was a Presidential Columnist for American Psychological Society Observer in 2005.
