The phrase "retrieve a memory" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when wanting to describe the act of remembering a particular event or something that has been stored in one's memory. For example, "I was able to retrieve a memory of my grandmother's cooking when I smelled the familiar spices."
"Each time you retrieve a memory it undergoes this storage process," Schiller told me over the phone the day before EmTech.
"When you retrieve a memory, that's a time when you update it with all the relevant things that happened since you stored it," said Joseph LeDoux, the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Neuroscience at New York University.
According to the scientific account, losing things represents a failure of recollection or a failure of attention: either we can't retrieve a memory (of where we set down our wallet, say) or we didn't encode one in the first place.
These results suggest that long-term memory and working memory may be constrained by a common limit, such as a bound on the fidelity required to retrieve a memory representation.
Bartok occasionally touches on memory itself as a subject — asserting, for example, that according to neuroscience, while the core meaning of a long-term memory endures, every time we retrieve a memory we alter it.
The issue you get at whenever you're dealing with a memory failure of any kind is: is the problem an inability to retrieve a memory that's there, or is it that the memory is no longer there and by no means could you retrieve it?
Muenchow retrieved a memory card and plugged it into his computer.
Simple repetition – practising retrieving a memory over and over again – is the best form of consolidating the pattern.
Said "job" involves hunting down a group of jewel thieves and retrieving a memory stick that contains vital blah blah blah blah blah.
When your brain retrieves a memory, it does not do it like a computer does, which calls up a complete record of what's on its hard drive.
Whenever you remember something, like where you left your car keys, you aren't retrieving a memory wholesale from some distinct crevice in your brain; instead, you construct memories in the moment, out of bits and pieces gathered from around your brain.
