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Stopping and switching tasks
Letting go of one activity and picking up the next.
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The highlights illustrate contributing systems. The precise mechanisms in ADHD are still being investigated.
Sources and model credits
Sources checked September 2026. Studies differ in age, methods and populations; their relevance is explained in Technical Detail. Everyday examples illustrate a process rather than a measured brain response.
- Task switching and shifts of attention (2018)
- Senkowski and colleagues (2024; online 2023) — adult stop-signal meta-analysis
- Cai and colleagues (2012) — the network involved in stopping an action
- Dosenbach and colleagues (2008) — two interacting control networks
- Hupfeld and colleagues (2019; online 2018) — adult hyperfocus questionnaire
- Groen and colleagues (2020) — testing hyperfocus in adults with and without ADHD
- NICE NG87 — individual environmental adjustments and ADHD support
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Narration: Emma (Kokoro bf_emma). The recording is included in this file and plays offline.