The phrase "an instrumental task" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a task that is essential or serves as a means to achieve a particular goal or outcome.
Example: "Completing the market research was an instrumental task in developing our new product strategy."
Alternatives: "a crucial task" or "a key task".
In summary, physical, but not social, enrichment had a positive effect on animal capabilities of acquiring an instrumental task using a fixed-ratio schedule.
Although such schizotypy-related differences on associative learning tasks have been demonstrated before, to our knowledge this is the first study demonstrating such deficits on an instrumental task.
Rather than emulating by using their preferred method or (blindly) copying an alternative method that a conspecific demonstrated to solve an instrumental task, dogs selectively re-enacted the demonstrated action depending on the constraints of the situation of the demonstrator.
Furthermore, our observations can be used for improving the present prediction methods for characterization of cooperative TFs and for devising new ones, an instrumental task towards unraveling the architecture of transcriptional networks.
Mice were then trained on a discriminated instrumental task to press a lever to obtain the US (Figure 1C, left) using the same instrumental training protocol as previously employed to test satiety-induced reinforcer devaluation in C57BL/6J mice [30].
These results show that although chimpanzees are capable of spontaneous cooperation in a novel instrumental task, tolerance acts as a constraint on their ability to solve such cooperative problems.
Selective lesions of the NAc core or shell, after training on a simple forced -choice instrumental task, had few major effects on performance under standard and challenge conditions.
NA recordings revealed that the NA core could lose its correlation with hippocampal theta activity (which persisted during the instrumental task) and acquire a synchronization with delta activity and low frequency events in the PFC.
The predominance of the goal-directed vs. the habitual system was reflected in the slips of action in an instrumental learning task.
Here, we used neuro-navigated theta-burst stimulation (TBS) to either inhibit or enhance right ilPFC functionality before participants completed an instrumental learning task designed to probe goal-directed vs. habitual behavioral control.
TBS was applied over the right ilPFC, exactly over the location postulated to modulate the balance of goal-directed and habitual action13, before participants completed an instrumental learning task (ILT), designed to test the degree of habitual vs. goal-directed control of behavior19,20.
