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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Forensic Science

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  • Forensic examiners match evidence, but the psychological basis of their expertise is unclear.
  • Statistical learning, the ability to discern event frequencies, is a potential mechanism for expertise.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of statistical learning in the expertise of fingerprint examiners.
  • To compare the statistical learning abilities of fingerprint examiners and novices.

Main Methods:

  • 46 fingerprint examiners and 52 novices completed statistical learning tasks (frequency discrimination, estimation, source-likelihood judgments).
  • Tasks were administered before and after participants were familiarized with ground-truth fingerprint category frequencies.

Main Results:

  • Fingerprint examiners demonstrated superior domain-specific statistical learning compared to novices on all measures.
  • This advantage persisted both before and after familiarization with category frequencies.

Conclusions:

  • Expertise in fingerprint examination is associated with enhanced domain-specific statistical learning.
  • Findings suggest statistical learning is a key component of forensic expertise and can inform training and database development.