Fig. 1

A schematic diagram of the Find-the-Fragment task used in Experiment 1. On the left, we provide an example of each of the trial types: the array fingerprint was either an intact fingerprint or scrambled, and the target feature was either a ‘more useful’ feature (a), or ‘less useful’ feature (b). When generating the scrambled fingerprints, we kept the location and appearance of the fragments identical to those in the intact prints. The correct locations of the fragments for each example are displayed on the right