E. Poster presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston. 1997. We now report that while men show this memory-rule dichotomy, women do not. Men memorize irregular pasts and other lexicalized forms in declarative memory, but rule-produce grammatical forms like regular pasts in the procedural system.
Women tend to memorize both types of forms.
In general, men may rely more on the procedural system than women, while women rely more on declarative memory than men.