[HTML][HTML] Interpol review of fingermarks and other body impressions (2019–2022)

A Bécue, C Champod - Forensic Science International: Synergy, 2023 - Elsevier
The area of fingermarks is a very active community fuelled with many research papers, case
studies and commentaries proposed during the reviewing period (July 2019–June 2022) …

Diverse types of expertise in facial recognition

A Towler, JD Dunn, S Castro Martínez, R Moreton… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Facial recognition errors can jeopardize national security, criminal justice, public safety and
civil rights. Here, we compare the most accurate humans and facial recognition technology …

Retracted: Generalisability and stability of visual comparison ability

B Growns, M Gough, RK Helm - Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Visual comparison–or 'pattern‐matching'–is a generalisable ability to compare complex
visual stimuli (like fingerprints or faces) and decide whether they are from the same source …

The low prevalence effect in fingerprint comparison amongst forensic science trainees and novices

B Growns, JD Dunn, RK Helm, A Towler, J Kukucka - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The low prevalence effect is a phenomenon whereby target prevalence affects performance
in visual search (eg, baggage screening) and comparison (eg, fingerprint examination) …

The novel object-matching test (NOM Test): A psychometric measure of visual comparison ability

B Growns, A Towler, K Martire - Behavior Research Methods, 2024 - Springer
This paper presents a new test of object-matching ability: the Novel Object-Matching Test
(NOM Test). Object-matching (or visual comparison) is a complex cognitive and perceptual …

The neural correlates of domain-general visual ability

RW McGugin, MA Sunday, I Gauthier - Cerebral Cortex, 2023 - academic.oup.com
People vary in their general ability to compare, identify, and remember objects. Research
using latent variable modeling identifies a domain-general visual recognition ability (called …

Evidence for an amodal domain-general object recognition ability

JK Chow, TJ Palmeri, G Pluck, I Gauthier - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
A general object recognition ability predicts performance across a variety of high-level visual
tests, categories, and performance in haptic recognition. Does this ability extend to auditory …

Object recognition ability predicts category learning with medical images

CJR Smithson, QG Eichbaum, I Gauthier - Cognitive Research: Principles …, 2023 - Springer
We investigated the relationship between category learning and domain-general object
recognition ability (o). We assessed this relationship in a radiological context, using a …

[HTML][HTML] Selecting police super-recognisers

JD Dunn, A Towler, RI Kemp, D White - PLoS One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
People vary in their ability to recognise faces. These individual differences are consistent
over time, heritable and associated with brain anatomy. This implies that face identity …

Measuring object recognition ability: Reliability, validity, and the aggregate z-score approach

CJR Smithson, JK Chow, TY Chang… - Behavior Research …, 2024 - Springer
Measurement of domain-general object recognition ability (o) requires minimization of
domain-specific variance. One approach is to model o as a latent variable explaining …