The effect of the cognitive warm-up on the eyewitness’ face and object identification. Preliminary study

Data obtained from the experiment on the impact of cognitive warm-up on recognition memory. Subjects recruited in Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland (N = 106) were randomly assigned to a control and experimental conditions. In the first step both groups watched a 3-minute video presenting a scene in a cafe with woman and a man. In the second step, subjects had to identify six objects (two faces, four items) from a lineups. In the control condition a cognitive warm-up in the form of arithmetical and logical tasks was applied before six lineups.