The phrase "a single recollection" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to one specific memory or instance of remembering something.
Example: "In the midst of the chaos, a single recollection of her childhood brought her comfort."
Alternatives: "one memory" or "a solitary memory."
In real life, it's not possible to pluck a single recollection from our brains without destroying others, and Schiller has no desire to do that.
Human memories, of course, are more complex than rats', and a single recollection can be stored across multiple parts of the brain, but Malinow believes that modification may one day be possible.
In the metaphysical fable "After Life" (1998), the newly dead are asked to pick a single earthly recollection to keep for eternity, displacing all other memories.
Instead, Jemima prefers to start with a single fact or recollection and bounce around from it, exploring connected ideas, leaping between episodes and across time, from herself as a child to herself as an adult.
THE city often makes these small visits to different corners of the earth seem more real than the actual ones, perhaps because in New York, we see and experience the vacations and journeys we have taken as a single flash of recollection.
Their accounts are in secret reports in Soviet-era archives, one of which offered the most tantalizing hint: a single phrase in the recollection of the chief killer that seemed to suggest where the two bodies might have been deposited.
We note, furthermore, that whether recollection and familiarity are separate processes (Eichenbaum et al., 2008), or reflect a single process, with familiarity and recollection reflecting different degrees of memory strength (Wixted and Squire, 2008), is an area of continuing debate (see also Gardiner and Richardson-Klavehn, 2000 and Yonelinas, 2002) for relevant information regarding humans.
Mr. Mayers does not, to my recollection, have a single line of dialogue; his wife has a handful, but spends most of her limited screen time putting on a brave face for neighbors who first peer and gawk, and then chant and riot in front of their home.
While it's true that accuracy and confidence can correlate within a single person's repertoire of recollections, confidence is a poor marker of accuracy when judging a single act of recollection or when comparing across witnesses.
Our incidence is likely to be an underestimate as it relies on the recollections of a single individual in each institution.
"My recollection is of a single mom and two older brothers who were my dads," Amy Cranston says.
