Title: A Brain-inspired Cognitive System that duplicates cognitive interference within human-like timescales Abstract: In recent years, some impressive AI systems have been built that can play games and answer questions about large quantities of data. However, we are still a very long way from AI systems that can think and learn in a human-like way. We have a great deal of information about how the brain works and can simulate networks of hundreds of millions of neurons. It seems likely that we could start building brain-inspired neuronal networks using neuroscientific knowledge to duplicate actions like humans on similar timescales. This paper describes a simulated neuron-network that can recreate the Stroop Effect, which is a prominent cognition interference phenomenon. The system can produce the correct reactions in a similar timescale on the word recognition and colour naming task. In the longer term, this type of AI technology could lead to more flexible general-purpose artificial intelligence and to more natural human-computer interaction.