Dr Maarten Immink

Dr. Maarten Immink is Lecturer in Human Movement in the School of Health Sciences. He coordinates and teaches the areas of skill acquisition and motor control within the human movement undergraduate degree program. Dr Immink is also an accredited exercise physiologist and contributes teaching and clinical supervision to the Graduate Diploma in Clinical Exercise Science. He is also an accredited yoga and meditation teacher.

• Dr Immink is interested in the neural and cognitive aspects of skill acquisition and motor control, including rehabilitation of motor impairments.
• Dr Immink is actively engaged in clinical education, Honours Degree supervision, and post-graduate degree supervision.

North American Society for Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA)

Australian Association for Exercise and Sport Scientists (AAESS)

International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)

1999 Doctor of Philosophy Exercise Science Texas A&M University, U.S.A.

1995 Master of Science Exercise Science Texas A&M University, U.S.A.

1992 Bachelor of Arts Biology and Chemistry Texas A&M University, U.S.A.

• Motor neuroscience, neural contributions to human movement
• Yoga and Meditation interventions for neurological motor impairments.
• Stress, anxiety and mood modulation of motor skill learning and performance.
• Behavioural strategies to enhance neural plasticity and memory consolidation processes for motor skill learning.

Immink, M. A. (manuscript in preparation). Response programming prior to a covert rehearsal event.

Williams, M. & Immink, M. A. (manuscript in preparation). Cognitive loading during a complex dynamic balancing skill.

Immink, M. A., Wright D.L. & Barnes, W. (manuscript in preparation). Learned force specification deficits during changes in localized skin temperature.

Wright, D.L., Black C.B., Immink, M. A., Brueckner S., & Magnuson, C. (2004). Long-term motor programming improvements occur via concatenation of movement sequences during random but not during blocked practice. Journal of Motor Behavior, 36(1), 39-50.

Immink, M.A. & Wright D.L. (2001) Motor programming during high and low contextual interference practice conditions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27(2), 423-437.

Shea, C.H., Lai, Q., Wright, D.L., Immink, M.A., & Black C. (2001) Consistent and variable practice conditions: Effects on relative and absolute timing. Journal of Motor Behavior, 33(2), 139-152.

Immink, M.A. & Wright D.L. (1998). Contextual interference: A response planning account. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 51A(4), 735-754.

Anderson, T., Wright, D.L. & Immink, M.A. (1998). Contextual dependencies during perceptual motor skill activities: A re-evaluation of Wright and Shea (1991). Memory, 6(2), 207-221.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: health sciences

• human movement
• motor control
• skill acquisition
• clinical exercise intervention
• neurologic motor rehabilitation
• exercise physiology
• yoga and meditation