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The brain can be prevented from processing a particular task through specific cognitive control mechanisms

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Neuroimaging and behavioral evidence robustly supports the concept that specific cognitive control mechanisms, underpinned by distinct fronto-parietal and prefrontal neural networks, can inhibit or prevent the brain from processing competing tasks.

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The claim is specific, empirical, and testable. Multiple retrieved fMRI and EEG studies confirm that cognitive control involves distinct neural circuits (such as fronto-parietal networks and the inferior frontal gyrus) dedicated to task-switching, response inhibition, and interference resolution, thereby preventing or suppressing task interference.

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Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Control in Cued Task‐Switching: Rules, Representations, and Preparation
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Hannes Ruge, Todd S. Braver. Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Control in Cued Task‐Switching: Rules, Representations, and Preparation. 2007. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195314274.003.0015

Paper 0 discusses the neural basis of rules and preparatory activation in cognitive control tasks.

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Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Flexibility and Interference Control in a Stroop Task Switching Paradigm
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Zeynab Tahamtan, Seyed Ali Osia, Pawel Herman. Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Flexibility and Interference Control in a Stroop Task Switching Paradigm. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.05.652181

Paper 1 isolates task-switching and interference control to demonstrate distinct neural mechanisms for conflict monitoring.

Large-scale functional neural network correlates of response inhibition: an fMRI meta-analysis.
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Ruibin Zhang, Xiujuan Geng, Tatia M C Lee. Large-scale functional neural network correlates of response inhibition: an fMRI meta-analysis.. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-017-1443-x

Paper 5 uses a large meta-analysis to show that specific brain networks and regions consistently coordinate response inhibition and cognitive control processes.

Neural correlates of affective task switching and asymmetric affective task switching costs.
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Cindy Eckart, Dominik Kraft, Lena Rademacher, Christian J Fiebach. Neural correlates of affective task switching and asymmetric affective task switching costs.. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsac054

Paper 8 demonstrates that fronto-parietal control systems and inhibitory mechanisms underlie task switching and cognitive control.

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