Dr Eugene Poh is a Lecturer in Exercise and Sports Science in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences. He holds a PhD in Sensorimotor Neuroscience from the University of Queensland, with a multi-disciplinary background in physical education, exercise and sports science, cognitive science and neurophysiology. Prior to joining Macquarie University in 2022, he pursued postdoctoral studies in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University and was a lecturer in motor control and learning in the School of Medical, Indigenous, and Health Sciences at University of Wollongong. 

Dr Poh's research is dedicated to advancing our understanding of human motor control and learning through innovative research projects. He integrates research expertise in motor psychophysics, computational modelling, non-invasive brain stimulation and neuropsychological techniques to reveal fundamental principles of how the brain learns new motor skills and represents what it learns. 

Dr Poh's research covers a wide range of topics including:

• how different types of error signals drive recalibration of the mapping between motor commands and sensory outcomes to maintain movement accuracy and precision (i.e. sensorimotor adaptation)

• the computational principles underlying the use of deliberate (cognitive) strategies and implicit motor adaptation in learning novel motor tasks

• neural/cognitive representations involved in acquisition, refinement and deployment of top-down decision making and bottom up adaptive processes in motor learning

• transfer/generalization of motor learning to novel contexts (i.e. untrained limb, novel environment)

• the role of visual and proprioceptive information in feedback and feedforward control of movements