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| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 716–720 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Applied Cognitive Psychology |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
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Holistic versus featural facial composite systems for people with mild intellectual disabilities. / Gawrylowicz, Julie; Gabbert, Fiona; Carson, Derek; Lindsay, William R.; Hancock, Peter J. B.
In: Applied Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 26, No. 5, 2012, p. 716–720.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Holistic versus featural facial composite systems for people with mild intellectual disabilities
AU - Gawrylowicz, Julie
AU - Gabbert, Fiona
AU - Carson, Derek
AU - Lindsay, William R.
AU - Hancock, Peter J. B.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Limited verbal abilities might act as a barrier to witnesses with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) to provide accurate testimony. This might be particularly problematic when the police need to create a facial composite image. Contrary to featural composite systems such as Electronic Facial Identification Technique (E-FIT), holistic systems such as Evolutionary Facial Identification Technique (EvoFIT) do not require the witness to provide a verbal description of a perpetrator's face. Instead, they rely more on face recognition, which may make them more suitable for people with ID. The current study compared the performance of people with and without ID at creating composites using E-FIT and EvoFIT. Although ID composites created with EvoFIT were more often accurately identified than E-FIT composites, the performance of ID participants was overall very poor across both systems and considerably poorer than that of non-ID participants. The implications of these findings for practitioners working in the Criminal Justice System are discussed.
AB - Limited verbal abilities might act as a barrier to witnesses with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) to provide accurate testimony. This might be particularly problematic when the police need to create a facial composite image. Contrary to featural composite systems such as Electronic Facial Identification Technique (E-FIT), holistic systems such as Evolutionary Facial Identification Technique (EvoFIT) do not require the witness to provide a verbal description of a perpetrator's face. Instead, they rely more on face recognition, which may make them more suitable for people with ID. The current study compared the performance of people with and without ID at creating composites using E-FIT and EvoFIT. Although ID composites created with EvoFIT were more often accurately identified than E-FIT composites, the performance of ID participants was overall very poor across both systems and considerably poorer than that of non-ID participants. The implications of these findings for practitioners working in the Criminal Justice System are discussed.
U2 - 10.1002/acp.2850
DO - 10.1002/acp.2850
M3 - Article
VL - 26
SP - 716
EP - 720
JO - Applied Cognitive Psychology
JF - Applied Cognitive Psychology
SN - 0888-4080
IS - 5
ER -