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Direct linkBethany Growns; James D. Dunn; Rebecca K. Helm; Alice Towler; Erwin J. A. T. Mattijssen; Kristy A. Martire – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
Perceptual expertise is typically domain-specific and rarely generalises beyond an expert's domain of experience. Forensic feature-comparison examiners outperform the norm in domain-specific visual comparison, but emerging research suggests that they show advantages on other similar tasks outside their domain of expertise. For example, fingerprint…
Descriptors: Crime, Expertise, Experience, Transfer of Training
