"recall a memory" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to ask someone to remember and describe a past experience. For example, "Can you recall a memory of your childhood that stands out to you?".
Every time you or I recall a memory, we repaint it in our minds.
"Each time you recall a memory, you destroy it a little bit".
The idea is closely related to the notion of modifying memory — reconsolidation, the process in which we recall a memory and, often, subtly change it as we do.
"The difference is that Proust used photography, a posteriori, to recall a memory," Mr. Cheroux writes, "while Lartigue used it, a priori, as an antidote to forgetting".
External context can help you recall a memory; you're better able to recall it if you are in the same environment where the memory was acquired.
However, those digital visual-cues that are trapped behind the device's 2D screen are not the only means to recall a memory we experienced with more than the sense of vision.
Now, however, researchers understand that that the process of recalling a memory actually changes it.
He proposed that recalling a memory actually causes the synapses encoding that memory to weaken or even to come apart.
In the first episode, a local man recalls a memory from childhood, about playing on a pipe in a contaminated Butte creek.
If recalling a memory is like climbing a hill, then being reminded of it is like being dropped by helicopter on top of the hill.
By Michele Moses October 10, 2016 At The New Yorker Festival this past weekend, Malcolm Gladwell recalled a memory of childhood mischief as a way to understand what has been happening at Princeton University.
