Holistic processing of fingerprints by expert forensic examiners
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Holistic processing of fingerprints by expert forensic examiners
Holistic processing is often characterized as a process by which objects are perceived as a whole rather than a compilation of individual features. This mechanism may play an important role in the development of perceptual expertise because it allows for rapid integration across image regions. The present work explores whether holistic processing is present in latent fingerprint examiners, who ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2365-7464
DOI: 10.1186/s41235-017-0051-x