A high-tech project at the intersection of science, art, and education, aimed at improving the lives of people with disabilities. The Laboratory operated from 2020 to 2021 at the Boarding School No. 1 named after K. K. Grot for blind and visually impaired children in Saint Petersburg.
Yuri Didevich — the idea author, technical project leader, and creator of all technological solutions in the "NeuroCulture" Laboratory.
The main goal of the project was to promote the emotional development and creative potential of blind and visually impaired individuals. By using assistive technologies, the project allowed participants to share their emotions and sensations through musical improvisation based on the interaction of the senses: touch, movement, and hearing. This process took place in a playful manner, where stimuli from one modality, such as motor skills and tactile sensations (texture and shape), were associated with stimuli from another modality — sound and music. This type of interaction facilitated the development of cognitive processes in the participants.
The Laboratory was equipped with an innovative software and hardware complex "NeuroTafl", created by Yuri Didevich in 2020-2021. This complex allowed users to interact directly with the software through a tactile-kinesthetic interface, identifying and controlling their behavior. The software, developed by Yuri, used machine learning to solve complex tasks requiring analytical computations similar to those performed by the human brain.
