DATA FITTING AND DETECTION THEORY - REPLY TO MASSARO AND ODEN (1995)

D. W. Massaro and G. C. Oden (1995) claimed that M. A. Pitt's (1995) d ata provide strong evidence in favor of independence, not interactivit y, as argued by Pitt. Massaro and Oden's arguments rested on an evalua tion of the fit of the fuzzy logical model of perception (FLMP) to the identification data and on criticisms of the detection theory analyse s. In this reply, Pitt shows that the latter criticisms were unfounded and that the data-fitting demonstrations raised questions about FLMP' s ability to capture the phenomenon of interest (i.e., lexical context effects).