# Domain-specific and domain-general

Whether a brain region is specialised for one task or serves many.

**Source:** “specialized structures address specific cognitive tasks, as opposed to general mechanisms that subserve multiple cognitive operations” [Article PMC10974919 (PubMed Central)](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10974919/)

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