Perceptual Expertise in Fingerprint Classification

  • Cavallaro, Anneliese
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Publication date
January 2019
Language
English

Abstract

This item is only available electronically.Fingerprint examiners classify crime scene prints as belonging a left or right hand and to a finger-type – thumb index, middle, ring or little – to help narrow their search for known candidate prints. While fingerprint examiners have been found to have impressive perceptual expertise little in known about their perceptual abilities in this aspect of the fingerprint examination process. The present study served as a first test of fingerprint classification expertise, probing experienced (n = 30) and novice (n = 30) examiners in their ability to classify a controlled, fully rolled, set of prints by hand-type and finger-type in a 10-alternative forced-choice task. Using a yoked novice-expert design pe...

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