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Dr. Poh Zhenyong, fully Eugene Poh Zhenyong, is a Lecturer in Exercise and Sports Science in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences at Macquarie University. He holds a PhD in Sensorimotor Neuroscience from the University of Queensland, completed in 2017 with a thesis entitled 'Neural mechanisms of motor learning in novel visual environments.' His career includes postdoctoral research in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University and a prior role as Research Fellow in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at the University of Queensland. Poh possesses a multidisciplinary background in physical education, exercise and sports science, cognitive science, and neurophysiology.

Poh Zhenyong's academic interests focus on human motor control and learning, integrating motor psychophysics, computational modelling, non-invasive brain stimulation, and neuropsychological techniques to investigate how the brain acquires new motor skills and represents them. His research explores phenomena such as the effects of action history on movement through distinct processes, coordinate frame compatibility in inter-limb learning transfer, superposition in generalization of explicit and implicit learning, distinct coordinate systems for movement direction and extent adaptations, and immediate access to new visuomotor maps by the opposite limb. Prominent publications include 'Action history influences subsequent movement via two distinct processes' (eLife, 2017), 'Effect of coordinate frame compatibility on the transfer of implicit and explicit learning across limbs' (Journal of Neurophysiology, 2016), 'Generalization via superposition: combined effects of mixed reference frame representations for explicit and implicit learning in a visuomotor adaptation task' (Journal of Neurophysiology, 2019), 'Distinct coordinate systems for adaptations of movement direction and extent' (Journal of Neurophysiology, 2017), and 'New visuomotor maps are immediately available to the opposite limb' (Journal of Neurophysiology, 2014). He has convened units including Biomechanics of Human Movement (PHTY3001), Human Motor Learning and Performance (ESPS3002), and Human Growth, Development, and Ageing (ESPS2004).