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Active Maintenance

Active Maintenance is a cognitive process within working memory that involves the deliberate and effortful preservation of task-relevant information through sustained or recurrent neural activity, distinguishing it from passive storage or automatic memory retention mechanisms.

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17.5K

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584

Authors

298

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2017–2026

44

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Publications

158

Frontal theta activity in humans increases with memory load in a working memory task

Ole Jensen, Claudia D. Tesche · European Journal of Neuroscience · 2002 · 1.4K citations

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The nature of individual differences in working memory capacity: Active maintenance in primary memory and controlled search from secondary memory.

Nash Unsworth, Randall W Engle · Psychological Review · 2007 · 1.3K citations

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The hepatitis B virus persists for decades after patients' recovery from acute viral hepatitis despite active maintenance of a cytotoxic T–lymphocyte response

Barbara Rehermann, Carlo Ferrari, C Pasquinelli et al. · Nature Medicine · 1996 · 849 citations

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Neural signature of the conscious processing of auditory regularities

Tristán Bekinschtein, Stanislas Dehaene, Benjamin Rohaut et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · 759 citations · Full text

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Neural Evidence for a Distinction between Short-term Memory and the Focus of Attention

Jarrod A. Lewis‐Peacock, Andrew T. Drysdale, Klaus Oberauer et al. · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · 2011 · 546 citations · Full text

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Authors

584

  1. ME
    Michael E. Hasselmo

    Boston University, United States

    3 publications · 399 citations

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  2. CE
    Chantal E. Stern

    Boston University, United States

    3 publications · 266 citations

    3

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  3. NU
    Nash Unsworth

    University of Oregon, United States

    3 publications · 1.4K citations

    3

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  4. WM
    William M. Perlstein

    University of Florida, United States

    3 publications · 479 citations

    3

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  5. CR
    Charan Ranganath

    University of California, Davis, United States

    3 publications · 927 citations

    3

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Institutions

298

  1. Boston University

    Boston, United States

    6 h-index

    21 publications

    2.5K citations

  2. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    5 h-index

    18 publications

    1.7K citations

  3. University of Helsinki

    Helsinki, Finland

    4 h-index

    12 publications

    2.4K citations

  4. University of Geneva

    Geneva, Switzerland

    4 h-index

    17 publications

    625 citations

  5. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    1.2K citations

  6. New York University

    New York, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    380 citations

  7. Bangor University

    Bangor, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    581 citations

  8. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    3 h-index

    11 publications

    1.7K citations

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Venues

  1. PLoS ONE

    6 publications · 271 citations

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  2. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

    5 publications · 917 citations

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  3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 5 publications · 1.7K citations

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  4. Journal of Neuroscience

    5 publications · 932 citations

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  5. Hippocampus

    4 publications · 153 citations

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