Fingerprint Analysis

Edmond, G. (2022). Latent justice? A review of adversarial challenges to fingerprint evidence, Science and Justice, 62(1), 21 - 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2021.10.006

Edmond, G., Cunliffe, E., Hamer, D. Fingerprint comparison and adversarialism: The scientific and historical evidence. Modern Law Review, 83(6), 1287-1327. (link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-2230.12565?af=R)

Edmond, G., Thompson, M. B., & Tangen, J. M. (2013). A guide to interpreting forensic testimony: Scientific approaches to fingerprint evidence. Law, Probability & Risk, 13(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1093/lpr/mgt011 [PDF]

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., Mattijssen, E. J. A. T., Salerno, J. M., Schweitzer, N. J., Cole, S. A., & Martire, K. A. (2022). Finding the Perfect Match: Fingerprint Expertise Facilitates Statistical Learning and Visual Comparison Decision-Making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xap0000422

Growns, B., Dunn, J. D., Mattijssen, J. A. T., Quigley-McBride, A., & Towler, A. (2022). Match me if you can: Evidence for a domain-general visual comparison ability. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29(3), 866-881. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02134-4

Growns, B. & Kukucka, J. (2021). The prevalence effect in fingerprint identification: match and non-match base-rates impact misses and false alarms. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35(3), 751-760.https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3800

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

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.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fxap0000272

Ribeiro, G., Tangen, J. M., & McKimmie, B. M. (2019). Beliefs about error rates and human judgment in forensic science. Forensic Science International, 297(1), 138–147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2019.01.034

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 [PDF]

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. https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fcep0000124

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.

Searston, R. A., Thompson, M. B., Vokey, J. R., French, L. A., & Tangen, J. M. (2019). How low can you go? Detecting style in extremely low-resolution images. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45(5), 573-584. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000628

Tangen, J. M. (2013). Identification personified. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences45(3), 315-322. [PDF]

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). Generalization in fingerprint matching experiments. Science & Justice54(5), 391-392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2014.06.008 [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]

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]