Access to a memory trace in the absence of the stimulus that formed the memory, for example, remembering the name of a friend without hearing the name repeated. Recall memory is typically ‘cued’ (e.g., a cue to recalling the name of a long-lost friend may be seeing a picture of him). Considered to require more cognitive effort than recognition memory. Typically, recall memory is assessed by means of paradigms based on verbal reports, which is not suitable for testing it with preverbal infants. A long-established alternative based on the visual modality is the elicited or deferred imitation paradigm.
See Double dissociation, Encoding specificity, Explicit (or declarative) and semantic memory, Follow-back design, Imitation, Memory, Mobile conjugate reinforcement, Operant train task, Primacy effect, Recall, Recency effect, Recognition memory, Sensory, short-term (STM) and long-term memory (LTM)