Rate My Professor Poh Zhenyong

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).