A system, apparatus and method for enhancing human sensorimotor ability

A method of enhancing motor skill ability of a user through multimodal sensorimotor stimulation, by combining a repetitive series of motor imagery tasks involving mental manipulation and imagined movement of specific body parts by the user that relies on the user's internal body model, with the active movement of body parts that are linked to the motor imagery task as determined by the user, with the user maintaining active standing balance on an unstable platform wherein the user's sensorimotor system is being further stimulated by the act of balancing on said unstable platform while the user undertakes the motor imagery tasks and active movement of body parts, and in between said tasks, said method comprising the steps of presenting a series of random visual images of random body parts or components thereof of a human body in a random orientation to the user via a visual display unit, providing instructions to the user with the effect of, the user mentally determining a particular feature of the image, the user making a corresponding active body movement in accordance with the feature identified, sensing the user's movement response using a motion sensing device for sensing the user's movement response which is made as a result of the user's mental analysis of each displayed random image, assessing the said response using a control unit that provides the images to the display unit, which records the user's response, analyse the said response compared with the random image and provide instructions and feedback to the user.