Visual attention and expertise for forensic signature analysis

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1397-1404

  Dyer, Adrian G ^a   Found, Bryan ^a,b   Rogers, Doug ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Document Examination Team   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognition; Decision making; Document examination; Eye movement; Forensic science

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCUMENT EXAMINATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33845568512     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2006.00269.x     Document Type: Article

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