All of us are familiar with the negative impact of interference on achieving our task goals. We
are referring to interference by information, which either impinges on our senses from an
external environmental source or is internally generated by our thoughts. Informed by more
than a decade of research on the cognitive and neural processing of interference, we have
developed a framework for understanding how interference impacts our neural systems and
especially how it is regulated and suppressed during efficient on-task performance …