Seidenberg Mark S, Arnoldussen Aimee
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, 1202 W Johnson St, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Brain Lang. 2003 Jun;85(3):527-30; discussion 531-4. doi: 10.1016/s0093-934x(03)00065-8.
The Beretta et al. study tested an invalid prediction concerning connectionist models of inflectional morphology and the study exhibits a confound between type of stimulus (regular, irregular) and processing difficulty (easy, hard) that invalidates their conclusions. Harder stimuli produced greater activation across a broader range of brain areas, as in previous studies, but the data have no bearing on the rules vs. connections debate.
