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An exploration of visual behaviour in eyewitness identification tests
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posted on 2016-02-01, 13:19 authored by Heather FloweThe contribution of internal (eyes, nose and mouth) and external (hair‐line, cheek and jawline) features across eyewitness identification tests was examined using eye tracking. In Experiment 1, participants studied faces and were tested with lineups, either simultaneous (test faces presented in an array) or sequential (test faces presented one at a time). In Experiment 2, the recognition of previously studied faces was tested in a showup (a suspect face alone was presented). Results indicated that foils were analysed for a shorter period of
time in the simultaneous compared to the sequential condition, whereas a positively
identified face was analysed for a comparable period of time across lineup procedures. In simultaneous lineups and showups, a greater proportion of time was spent analysing internal features of the test faces compared to sequential lineups. Different decision processes across
eyewitness identification tests are inferred based on the results.
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Applied Cognitive PsychologyVolume
25Issue
2Pages
244 - 254Citation
FLOWE, H.D., 2011. An exploration of visual behaviour in eyewitness identification tests. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25(2), pp. 244-254.Publisher
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: FLOWE, H.D., 2011. An exploration of visual behaviour in eyewitness identification tests. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25(2), pp. 244-254., which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/acp.1670. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving."ISSN
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