{"id":7718,"date":"2023-11-16T13:55:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T12:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sistemapolipiemonte.it\/mindthecity-synarea-consultants-s-r-l\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:19:00","slug":"mindthecity-synarea-consultants-s-r-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistemapolipiemonte.it\/en\/mindthecity-synarea-consultants-s-r-l\/","title":{"rendered":"MindTheCity!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cognitive rehabilitation with therapeutic video games.<\/p>\n

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Description<\/h3>\n

\u201cMindTheCity!\u201d: VR Application with over 10 years of R&D, a public-private mix. A research platform to provide VR exercises for stimulation, rehabilitation, and assessment of cognitive skills such as Attention, Memory, and Spatial Orientation. The scientific basis is formulated by the BIP Research Group – Brain Plasticity and behavior changes – of the Department of Psychology at UniTO, with which SynArea boasts a long collaboration with self-funded research and experimentation phases.
\nIn version 1, patients from Molinette Hospital with acquired focal brain damage and mild neurocognitive disorder were involved, while version 2 allows access to biometric data during sessions with patients. With the ReHOME Project (POR FESR 2014\/2020), it becomes a 3D video game dedicated to research, in order to train and improve players\u2019 visuospatial skills, both in perspective navigation and first-person navigation, with different levels of difficulty and gamification based on the disability.<\/p>\n

Project and Acronym:<\/strong> MindTheCity!
\nInnovation Cluster to contact:<\/strong> Polo ICT
\nTopics: <\/strong>Digital, Health<\/p>\n

Acknowledgements received:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the years, the evolution of \u201cMindTheCity!\u201d and the results of the experimentation have allowed the Psychologists of the BIP Research Group to formulate articles and interventions in journals and sector meetings:<\/p>\n

2016 \u2013 At the 13th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences, a presentation showed that \u201cfMRI results indicate a significant increase in post-training activation of the affected brain areas!\u201d
\n2018 \u2013 In the specialized journal \u201cSistemi Intelligenti\u201d published by Il Mulino \u2013 the publication titled: \u201cSpatial Navigation Training in Virtual Reality Environments\u201d highlighted that \u201cthe performance of participants in MindTheCity! improved during the course of the training\u201d;
\n2018 \u2013 At the XVI National Congress of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience – Turin, November 15-17, 2018, the presentation titled \u201cHow Virtual Reality Can Counteract the Development of Cognitive Disorders: New Directions in Neuroscientific Research for Sustainable Welfare\u201d;
\nApril 2022 \u2013 The Neurosciences journal published an article by the BIP Research Group titled: \u201cA Virtual Navigation Training Promotes the Remapping of Space in Allocentric Coordinates: Evidence From Behavioral and Neuroimaging Data\u201d; (https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fnhum.2022.693968\/full#F1). In this study, through a series of two different experiments, BIP researchers investigated the ability of the 3D video game \u201cMindTheCity!\u201d to train players\u2019 visuospatial skills and, more specifically, their abilities in constructing allocentric spatial representations of first-person perspective navigation.<\/p>\n

Why is it important?<\/h3>\n

\u201cMindTheCity!\u201d is the VR Application dedicated to Cognitive Rehabilitation and Spatial Memory, developed, tested, and improved through two regionally co-funded R&D Projects (RICCAmente and Mindset) and two \u201cnet\u201d corporate investments: 2015-2016 and 2019-2022 (REHOME project).
\nThe value of the project lies in:<\/p>\n