Intense exercise blurs the mind

摘要

Witnesses to a crime might recall events and faces less accurately if physically exhausted at the time of the incident. Thaf s the conclusion from a study in which 52 police officers were asked to recall events and identify suspects from ID parades after reconstructed crime. Lorraine Hope of the University of Portsmouth, UK, and colleagues gave all participants a briefing about a pretend burglary. Half of them then exercised for around a minute, to the point of exhaustion.