Training & Expertise

Burton, A. M., White, D., & McNeill, A. (2010). The Glasgow Face Matching Test. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 286-291. [PDF]

Carragher, D.J., Towler, A., Mileva, V.R., White, D., & Hancock, P.J.B. (2022). Masked face identification is improved by diagnostic feature training. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-022-00381-x

Chin, J. M., & Neal, T. M. (2022). Further caution is required on what memory experts can reliably say. Forensic Science International: Mind and Law, 4(100113). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsiml.2022.100113

Growns, B., Dunn, J.D., Helm, R., Towler, A., & Kukucka, J. (2022). The low prevalence effect in fingerprint comparison amongst forensic science trainees and novices. Plos One, 17(8), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272338

Growns, B., Towler, A. & Martire, K. The novel object-matching test (NOM Test): A psychometric measure of visual comparison ability. Behavioural Research (2023). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02069-6

Growns, B. & Martire, K.A. (2020). Forensic feature-comparison expertise: statistical learning facilitates visual comparison performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 26(3), 493-506. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32150438/

Growns, B. & Martire, K.A. (2020). Human factors in forensic science: the cognitive mechanisms that underlie forensic feature-comparison expertise. Forensic Science International: Synergy, 2, 148-153. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589871X20300371

Growns, B., Towler, A., Dunn, J.D., Salerno, J.M., Schweitzer, N.J., Dror, I.E. (2022). Statistical feature training improves fingerprint-matching accuracy in novices and professional fingerprint examiners. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 7(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-022-00413-6

Martire, K.A., Growns, B. & Navarro, D.J. (2018). What do the experts know? Bias, precision, and forensic handwriting expertise. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(6), 1-10. https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-018-1448-3

Martire, K. A., & Edmond, G. (2017). Rethinking expert opinion evidence. Melbourne University Law Review, 40(3), 967–998[PDF]

Martire, K.A., Edmond, G. & Navarro, D. (2020) Exploring juror evaluations of expert opinions using the Expert Persuasion Expectancy (ExPEx) Framework, Legal and Criminological Psychology, 25(2), 90-110 https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12165

Martire, K. A., & Kemp, R. I. (2016). Considerations when designing human performance tests in the forensic sciences. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 50(2), 166–182. https://doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2016.1229815

Neal, S.M.T., Martire, A.K., Johan, L.J., Mathers, M.E. & Otto, K.R. (2022). The Law Meets Psychological Expertise: Eight Best Practices to Improve Forensic Psychological Assessment. Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 18(1), 169-192. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-050420-010148

Palada, H., Searston, R. A., Persson, A., Ballard, T., & Thompson, M. B. (2020). An evidence accumulation model of perceptual discrimination with naturalistic stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 26(4), 671–691. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000272

Robson, S. G., Searston, R. A., Edmond, G., McCarthy, D. J., & Tangen, J. M. (2020). An expert-novice comparison of feature choice. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34(5), 984-995. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3676

Robson, S. G., Tangen, J. M., & Searston, R. A. (2021). The effect of expertise, target usefulness and image structure on visual search. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6(16). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00282-5

Robson, G. S., Tangen, M.J., & Searston, A.R. (2022). Specific versus varied practice in perceptual expertise training. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(12), 1336-1346. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp000105

Searston, R. A., Tangen, J. M., & Eva, K. W. (2016). Putting bias into context: The role of familiarity in identification. Law and Human Behavior, 40(1), 50–64. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000154 [PDF]

Searston, R. A., & Tangen, J. M. (2017). Expertise with unfamiliar objects is flexible to changes in task but not changes in class. PLoS ONE, 12(6): e0178403. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178403 [PDF]

Searston, R. A., & Tangen, J. M. (2017). The emergence of perceptual expertise with fingerprints over time. Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition, 6(4), 442–451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2017.08.006 [PDF]

Searston, R. A., & Tangen, J. M. (2017). The style of a stranger: Identification expertise generalizes to coarser level categories. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(4), 1324–1329. [PDF]

Searston, R. A., & Tangen, J. M. (2017). Training perceptual experts: Feedback, labels, and contrasts. The Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(1), 32-39. [PDF]

Searston, R. A., Thompson, M. B., Robson, S. G., Corbett, B. J., Ribeiro, G., Edmond, G., & Tangen, J. M. (2019). Truth and transparency in expertise research. Journal of Expertise, 2(4), 199–209.

Smith H.M.J.,  Andrews, S., Baguley, T.S., Colloff, M.F., Davis, J.P., White, D., Rockey, J.C., & Flowe, H.D. (2021). Performance of typical and superior face recognizers on a novel interactive face matching procedure, British Journal of Psychology, 112(1), 964 - 991.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12499

Smith, A.M. & Neal, T.M.S. (2021). The distinction between discriminability and reliability in forensic science. Science & Justice, 61(4), 319-331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2021.04.002

Stevenson, C., Kramer, K., Edmond,G. & Martire, K. (2022). Reliability and validity of a quality tool for assessing clinical forensic medicine legal reports. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 89, 102359. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2022.102359

Tangen, J. M., Kent, K. M., & Searston, R. A. (2019). Collective intelligence in fingerprint analysis. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications5(1), 23–23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-00223-8

Tangen, J. M., Thompson, M. B., & McCarthy D. J. (2011). Identifying fingerprint expertise. Psychological Science22(8), 995–997. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797611414729 [PDF]

Thompson, M. B. & Tangen, J. M. (2014). The nature of expertise in fingerprint matching: Experts can do a lot with a little. PLoS ONE, 9(12) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0114759 [PDF]

Thompson, M. B., Tangen, J. M., & McCarthy, D. J. (2013). Expertise in fingerprint identification. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 58(6), 1519–1530. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.12203 [PDF]

Thompson, M. B., Tangen, J. M., Ivison, K. J., & Treloar, R. (2010). Expertise in matching fingerprints and faces. In: Simon J. Cropper, Combined Abstracts of 2010 Australian Psychology Conferences. 37th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (38-38). 8-10 April 2010.

Thompson, M. B., Tangen, J. M., & McCarthy, D. J. (2013). Human matching performance of genuine crime scene latent fingerprints. Law and Human Behavior, 38(1), 84–93. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000051 [PDF]

Thompson, M. B., Tangen, J. M., & Searston, R. A. (2014). Understanding expertise and non-analytic cognition in fingerprint discriminations made by humans. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 737–737. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00737 [PDF]

Towler, A., Kemp, R. I., & White, D. (2021). Can face identification ability be trained? Evidence for two routes to expertise. In M. Bindemann (Ed.), Forensic face matching: Research and practice: Oxford University Press, 89-114. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198837749.003.0005

Towler, A., Keshwa, M., Ton, B., Kemp, R. I., & White, D. (2021). Diagnostic feature training improves face matching accuracy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47(80), 1288-1298. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000972

Towler, A., White, D., Ballantyne, K., Searston, R., Martire, K., & Kemp, R. (2018). Are forensic scientists experts? Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 7(2), 199-208. [PDF]

Towler, A., White, D. & Kemp, R. I. (2014). Evaluating training methods of Facial Image Comparison: The Face Shape Strategy does not work. Perception, 43(2), 214-218. [PDF]

Towler, A., White, D., & Kemp, R. I. (2017). Evaluating the feature comparison strategy for forensic face identification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 23(1), 47-58. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000108 [PDF]

Tyler, R., Towler, A.,  Kemp R. I., & White. D. (2023). Let's talk about faces: Identifying faces from verbal descriptions, British Journal of Psychology, 114(1), 262 - 281. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12610

Vokey, J. R., Tangen, J. M., & Cole, S. A. (2009). On the preliminary psychophysics of fingerprint identification. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62(5), 1023-1040. [PDF]

White, D., Guilbert, D., De Lima Varela V.P., Jenkins, R., & Burton, M. (2021). GFMT2: A psychometric measure of face matching ability. Behavior Research Methods, 54(1), 252-260. https://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/a3fh4

White, D., Phillips, P. J., Hahn, C. A., Hill, M., & O’Toole, A. J. (2015). Perceptual expertise in forensic facial image comparison. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 282(1814), 73–80. http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1292 [PDF]

White, D., Towler, A., & Kemp, R. I. (2021). Understanding professional expertise in unfamiliar face matching. In M. Bindemann (Ed.), Forensic face matching: Research and practice: Oxford University Press, 62-88. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198837749.003.0004