The phrase "ability to remember a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity to retain information or recall past experiences.
Example: "The ability to remember a significant event from childhood can shape a person's identity."
Alternatives: "capacity to recall a" or "skill in remembering a".
The ability to remember a phone number while redialing it is a good example of short-term memory.
It was never clear what was actually being assessed, other than the ability to remember a huge amount and write almost continually for five days.
Compared with those who received no training, those who participated in 100 daily one-hour training sessions (both young and old) showed significant improvements on tests that measured reasoning, working memory, perceptual speed (in young adults only) and episodic memory (the ability to remember a short list, for example).
Working memory is more than just the ability to remember a telephone number long enough to dial it; it's the capacity to manipulate the information you're holding in your head — to add or subtract those numbers, place them in reverse order or sort them from high to low.
This test was used to measure the ability to remember a sequence of locations.
This paper introduces the Tactile Authentication System (TAS), which enables the user to authenticate entry through the ability to remember a sequence of pre-selected tactile sensations.
Provigil, for example, adds the ability to remember an extra digit or so to an individual's working memory (most people can hold seven random digits in their memory, but have difficulty with eight).
Ms. Tribe's film is a dramatization of the real-life story of a man who, after experimental surgery to cure epilepsy in the 1950s, lost the ability to remember any new information beyond a 20-second span.
When memory fails, as it normally does in old age or under pathological conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, this failure is reflected in the inability to remember over an extended period of time, although the ability to remember over a few seconds may remain intact.
Usually more exploration is seen of the object that has not previously been paired with the test context, an effect attributed to the ability to remember where an object was encountered.
None of those observations excuses them, but Dougie Smith heads this selection because he is the prime example of what many officials, in this observer's opinion, lack: levity; a capacity to relate to players; and the ability to remember that an invisible referee is often best.
