The phrase "a trained task" is not commonly used in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where you are referring to a task that has been specifically trained or prepared for a certain purpose, but it is not a standard expression.
Example: "The robot was programmed to perform a trained task efficiently in the assembly line."
Alternatives: "a specialized task" or "a designated task".
While the current research suggests that a variety of trained task combinations can improve dual-task performance, future studies should compare how different combinations of tasks impact the efficacy of training.
At the behavioral level, results show that the training condition led to a 20% improvement in the trained task, while the immobilization condition resulted in a 36% decrease in the FDI maximal voluntary contraction.
To test whether discrimination training on the trained task generalizes to improvements in untrained perceptual abilities in older adults, both groups were tested on a perceptual discrimination task at T1 and T2 for the direction of motion of random dot kinetograms (Fig. 1c).
Trained participants showed significant improvement at T2 versus T1 in both speed threshold on an adaptive test version of the trained task, and detection accuracy on a fixed-speed test version of the trained task (all time by group interactions: F>5.18, p<0.05).
By examining how training affects performance not only on the trained task but also on a different untrained one, we uncover the cortical basis of the hypothesized mechanisms [ 7, 13].
One of the benefits of such a paradigm is that the trained task is related to previously established language knowledge (e.g., identity of lexical items); it therefore resembles non-linguistic laboratory skill learning paradigms in which the novel skill builds upon existing skills (e.g., finger opposition [49]; voice in noise discrimination, [48]).
Robust on-task learning was found on the trained task, consistent with many other training studies (e.g., Humes et al. 2009; Moore et al. 2009; Wright et al. 2010).
Although working memory (WM) training programs consistently result in improvement on the trained task, benefit is typically short-lived and extends only to tasks very similar to the trained task (i.e., near transfer).
In this earlier work, we combined physical and mental practice and found that the enhanced performance in the experimental motor imagery group, compared with the group that engaged in physical but not mental practice of this task, was limited to the actual trained task, and was not associated with a more generalized recovery.
