recall
recall
recall (third-person singular simple present recalls, present participle recalling, simple past and past participle recalled)
1.(transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order). [from 16th c.]
2.(transitive) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc. [from 16th c.] He was recalled to service after his retirement.
She was recalled to London for the trial.
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3.(transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc. [from 16th c.]
4.(transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect. [from 16th c.] [quotations ▼]
5.(transitive, intransitive) To call again, to call another time. [from 17th c.]
6.(transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product). [from 20th c.]
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recall
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“By using recalled images you can bring back a particular type of past image, one formed when you planned something that has not yet happened but that you intend to have happen, for example, reorganizing your library come this weekend. As the planning process unfolded, you were forming images of objects and movements, and consolidating a memory of that fiction in your mind. Images of something which has not yet happened and that may in fact never come to pass are not different in nature from the images you hold of something that already has happened. They constitute the memory of a possible future rather than of the past that was.”
Damasio, A. 1994 Images of now, Images of the past, and Images of the future in Descartes’ Error, Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
