@article{LCNL:48, author={Mark S. Seidenberg and Aimee Arnoldussen}, year={2003}, month={06}, title={The brain makes a distinction between hard and easy stimuli: Comments on Baretta et al.}, journal={Brain and Language}, volume={85}, number={3}, pages={527-530}, comments={Can neuroimaging provide decisive evidence concerning competing theories of past tense morphology? And what about German, anyway?}, abstract={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.}, language={English}, keywords={event-related potentials; morphological inflection; German language; regular vs irregular nouns & verb inflections; Brain; Evoked Potentials; Inflection; Morphology (Language); Nouns; Verbs}, issn={0093934X}, URL={http://lcnl.wisc.edu/publications/archive/48.pdf}, }