0 past simple and past participle of recall
1 to bring the memory of a past event into your mind, and often to give a description of what you remember:
[ + -ing verb ] She recalled seeing him outside the shop on the night of the robbery.
[ + question word ] Can you recall what happened last night?
[ + (that) ] He recalled (that) he had sent the letter over a month ago.
"As I recall," he said with some irritation, "you still owe me €150."
The old man recalled the city as it had been before the war.
2 to order the return of a person who belongs to an organization or of products made by a company:
The company recalled thousands of jars of baby food after a salmonella scare.
The ambassador was recalled when war broke out.
Throughout his lengthy speeches, he would talk directly to individuals, whom he knew personally or recalled from prior engagements.
In other words, because the falsely recalled words were never encoded under self-referent instructions, they might be less available for defensive processing.
The memory performance concerning recalled digits was also recorded.
For those who recalled the 1912-14 home rule crisis, the scene was all too familiar.
It is based mostly upon reports of dreams that are spontaneously recalled upon waking in the morning.
However, the findings suggest that all informants recalled emotional, albeit fragmented, memories from their past.
Recalled information is subject to modification by previously stored information and by other new and existing inputs, and thereby reconstructed when recalled to conscious attention.
Minimally counterintuitive beliefs may have a potent survival advantage over intuitive beliefs: once processed and recalled, they degrade less than intuitive ones.
