Editing Recall (memory) (section)

===Total recall===
[[File:Jorge Luis Borges 1951, by Grete Stern.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Jorge Luis Borge|''[[Jorge Luis Borges]]'' in 1951]]

The Argentinean author, [[Jorge Luis Borges]] wrote the short story ''[[Funes the Memorious]]'' in 1944. It depicts the life of Ireneo Funes, a fictional character who falls off his horse and experiences a head injury. After this accident, Funes has total recall abilities. He is said to recall an entire day with no mistakes, but this feat of recall takes him an entire day to accomplish. It is said that Borges was ahead of his time in his description of memory processes in this story, as it was not until the 1950s and research on the patient HM that some of what the author describes began to be understood.<ref name="Quiroga">{{cite journal | last1 = Quiroga | first1 = R. Q. | year = 2010 | title = In Retrospect: Funes the Memorious | journal = Nature | volume = 463 | issue = 7281| page = 611 | doi=10.1038/463611a| bibcode = 2010Natur.463..611Q | doi-access = free }}</ref> A more recent instance of total recall in literature is found in 
is in Stieg Larsson's books ''[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]'', in which the lead character, Lisbeth Salander remembers anything she reads, indicating she has total recall ability. Another example is in Dan Brown's books ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]'' and ''[[Angels & Demons]]'', in which the main character, Dr. Robert Langdon, a religious iconography and symbology professor at Harvard University, has almost total recall ability. In ''[[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime]]'' by Mark Haddon, the main character, Christopher Boone, is a 15-year-old autistic boy with total recall abilities.<ref>The Curious incident of the dog in the night-time. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/childrens/grownups/davidficklingbooks/curious/[http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/childrens/grownups/davidficklingbooks/curious/{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}]</ref>

Total recall is also popular in television. It can be seen in Season 4 of the television show "[[Criminal Minds]]", in which the character Dr. Spencer Reid claims to have total recall ability.<ref>"Criminal Minds" (2005) - Memorable Quotes. (2010). Retrieved from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452046/quotes [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452046/quotes]</ref> Agent [[Fox Mulder]] from the television show "[[The X-Files]]" has a [[photographic memory]], a popular term for total recall.<ref>BBC - Cult - X-Files - personal file: Fox Mulder. (2005, September). Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/xfiles/personnel/mulder.shtml [https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/xfiles/personnel/mulder.shtml]</ref> Also, the character of hospital resident Lexie Grey on the television show "[[Grey's Anatomy]]" has total recall ability.<ref>Lexie Grey (Chyler Leigh) - Bio - Grey's Anatomy - ABC.com. (n.d.). Retrieved from {{cite web |url=http://abc.go.com/shows/greys-anatomy/bio/lexie-grey/94915 |title=Lexie Grey (Chyler Leigh) Bio - Grey's Anatomy - ABC.com |access-date=2013-07-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605141717/http://abc.go.com/shows/greys-anatomy/bio/lexie-grey/94915 |archive-date=2011-06-05 }} {{cite web |url=http://abc.go.com/shows/greys-anatomy/bio/lexie-grey/94915 |title=Lexie Grey (Chyler Leigh) Bio - Grey's Anatomy - ABC.com |access-date=2013-07-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605141717/http://abc.go.com/shows/greys-anatomy/bio/lexie-grey/94915 |archive-date=2011-06-05 }}</ref>