The phrase "able to recall a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity to remember or retrieve information.
Example: "She is able to recall a significant amount of information from her studies."
Alternatives: "capable of remembering a" or "able to retrieve a".
Although TV viewers tend to be able to recall a particularly good commercial, many cannot remember the product it featured.
"Just because you're able to recall a story better after six weeks may not mean that it's had any demonstrable effect on everyday life," Dr. Loewenstein said.
Most people will be able to recall a situation where the bad mood or negative attitude of a colleague affected their workplace.
Anyone under about the age of 30 will not be able to recall a time when you used to just turn up unannounced at people's houses.
David Segui testified for the prosecution Thursday in Washington in the Roger Clemens perjury trial and said he was able to recall a telephone conversation he said he had with Clemens's strength coach 11 years ago.
Allowing some noise in the retrieval, we are able to recall a larger number of patterns while discriminating between pattern subsets assigned to each component in the ensemble.
Whatever happens in the coming days and weeks, the Saab faithful — though their numbers are not large, their passion runs deep — will be able to recall an illustrious history of innovation and noncomformity.
It is one thing to be able to recall an event in general, and quite another to have someone ask you to walk them, step by step, moment by moment, through your memories, describing them in detail as you go.
Patients were given a maximum of four instructions and were, as expected, able to recall all of them immediately, a short-time recall of 100%.
It is fairly certain, however, that most of the millions watching would not be able to recall, say, a single costume worn by an Oscar dancer or any other of the ceremony's unknown performers.
Two years later, it was shown that western scrub jays seemed to have a form of memory that had previously been thought unique to humans: they were able to recall what a past experience was, and where and when it occurred.
