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Evolution of a speaking brain

evolution of a speaking brain

Did the ability to speak evolve out of the ability to sing? Take a look at this comic and learn more about science’s latest evolutionary hypothesis. This comics is a translation of a production done at the Donders Wonders.

OCEANA - Logbook - conference

Kids have the mic! Kids of year 7 succeeded in their challenge: to give a talk in a auditorium with 150 persons in the audience, at AgroParisTech engineering school in Paris. The topic of the talk what: how the brain work, how to optimize learning? All gathered by groups of 2 or 3, talking about […]

OCEANA - Logbook - colaboration

8 years old children, with Claire Birotat-Moncet. Week mid March 2017 by Isabelle Malet After introducing the brain to the kids in multiple sessions, we are preparing a conference. Activities that were done with the class will be presented to an audience of 200 persons. The school approved the invitation from Wax Youth that organise […]

OCEANA : program validation

Our questions: The ability to detect a state of stress, of lack of attention or of emotional overload is not inborn, you need to learn how to do it. To improve it, children first need to be able to perceive such states. The OCEANA team is interested in the ability to transfer this knowledge, i.e. […]

The team

External collaborators: CHARLOTTE CHEREL: young designer, she want to conceive product that engage users, here children, in an active use of their attention. She work today on the creation of object that would help the practice of attentive attendance in class. OCEANA program roles: Team and project management: Roselyne Kit improvement / users feedback […]

OCEANA - Logbook - visit of the lab

While on the french side, our 3 classes continue the teaching and are arriving to the end of it, our first dutch class testing the kit give the teaching a try since January. Kids seems really interested and happy of this knowledge. On the side of the OCEANA team, we are waiting for the detailed […]

OCEANA - Logbook - memory

Week January, 20th 2017 by Isabelle Malet Do I have a good memory? Oh my memory fail me … New chapter with the 8-9 years old children, but how important. Learning, is it memorizing all lessons done in the classroom? So, to begin, all children are going to experiment situation of memorizing. Memory is at […]

OCEANA - Logbook - cerebral plasticity and sessions about emotions

OCEANA - Logbook - Starting with Neuroscience

After the introduction of what is the stress, we move to how the brain works. Children arrived to the question : why do we stress? It’s time to give them some basic information about the brain to see how this can be link to the cause of stress and how we can play on stress […]

OCEANA – logbook – End of session about Stress

week 3 : frozen pictures In the OCEANA program, we are progressing slowly on the sessions about stress. After being confronted to a stressful situation : make a oral presentation, it’s time to look at video make during the week and the previous session. Will the children be able to catch stress signs ? […]

OCEANA : What is it?

OCEANA for ‘ Optimisation of Capabilities to Engage and Acquire, using neuroscientific methods’. What is the program OCEANA? The objective of this program is to raise the awareness of students via their abilities to pay attention to and learn, in order to optimize their learning process. In this medium, where schools and researchers come […]

OCEANA : Why do we teach neuroscience in class?

CURRENT SITUATION Our society evolves as fast at new technological developments do. We want our commodities to be faster and more attractive. Teachers have difficulty with the lack of attention children display in class. Schools are now faced with this question of how to improve attention and learning: the directors and teachers need to work together to […]

OCEANA : References

Discover our readings around the OCEANA program: View my Flipboard Magazine. Questionnaires: Here is a list of questionnaires used in research to study meditation and education across the literature. If you wish to use them, you should verify the usage licence, if the questionnaire is use for clinical purpose or school purpose : question can […]

OCEANA - Logbook - bonus

Novelty in the program The arrival of a 5 years old class in the program We had the pleasure to give the start to a new class, a 5 years old class from Paris. So for them, it was the stage of the initial questionnaires. A challenge for such a young participant, they have to […]

OCEANA – Logbook – Week 2

A stressful situation This second week, it’s the first activity session : the face-to-face with a stressful situation. Our two pilot class work in partnership. Students are making oral presentations (about a talent) and make movie of themselves. Videos will be sent to the other class. … So unknown students, on the other side […]

OCEANA - Logbook - Week 1

Between the 19 and the 28 f September 2016, Caroline and Isabelle (and Caire) give initial questionnaire to children to fill in. Theses questionnaire were testing the focus, empathy, or emotion perception skills of students. Rectifications Firsts needed adaptations appeared quickly: the idea to help student to answer with picture representing the Likert scale (5 choice […]

Donders Innovation Voucher

Cogni’Junior is very pleased to announce that the OCEANA program is supported by the Donders Institute, an major and international actor of the research in cognitive science. The Donders Institute The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour is a world-class research centre devoted to understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of human cognition and behavior in […]

OCEANA : education materials

Designers, teachers and researchers are coming together to create a multidisciplinary team and to engage in a “neuro-responsible” project: tools and content get scientific validation steps by creators of the program. The Teaching Kit: 3 goals 1) apprehend Most children have some concept of the brain, and what it does, but not all of this information […]

Evolution of a speaking brain

Plushes

Nous vous présentons ici les différentes peluches que nous utilisons lors de nos interventions. Pour chacune d’entre elles, vous trouverez une fiche d’activité à télécharger, suggérant les “défis” à relever par l’enfant lors de leur manipulation, et expliquant les concepts scientifiques sous-jacents. Les peluches neurones Les premières peluches a avoir été utilisées dans le cadre […]

Games

Une première série de jeux permet la fixation en mémoire des personnages et de leur rôle dans l’histoire. Ces jeux ne visent pas à apprendre des notions explicites, mais plutôt à revenir de manière ludique sur le conte. Ils peuvent donc être utilisés avec des enfants de tout âge. En voici deux exemples. […]

Brain Puzzle

Nous utilisons classiquement ce puzzle pour introduire les grandes questions sur lesquelles nous nous focaliserons lors des séances, à savoir : à quoi ressemble le cerveau ? A quoi sert-il ? Quelles sont ses différentes parties ? Le terme de “puzzle du cerveau” est en fait incorrect, car nous représentons ici l’encéphale, composé du cerveau, du cervelet […]

Neurosciences and learning

Parkinson

the stroke

Alzheimer disease

Mimi - the comics - episode 4

Mimi - the comics - episode 3

Mimi - the comics - episode 2

Mimi - the comics - episode 1

The adventure of Mimi

Mimi the microglia is the first character created by Cogni’Junior. It’s a glial cell of the immune system traveling inside the brain and discovering how it works. The tale was created in september 2013. Mimi’s adventure developped in comics, with a target, this time, older. We let you discover the adventure and hope that you […]

Mimi and the voluntary movement

Adventures of Mimi : Fronti, a neuron of the frontal cortex, is surprised that the order of movement that him and his colleagues sent to other neurons isn’t follow by confirmation of execution. He is a bit concerned. In the neighborhood, our friend Mimi the microglia decide to help to find where the movement order […]

Mimi in the land of place cells

Mimi in the land of place cells Mimi, out little microglia, immune cell of the brain, will have new adventures. She is surprised that detailed information come from neurons of a brain region, the hippocampus, when we are searching for something. Neurons are always happy to call them for help, they never failed when it’s […]

Robi the Robot

The story of Robi: Maya see her mother overloaded by responsabilities. With the help of her grand-mother, she build, hiden, a robot : Robi. She wish that this machine help her mother to have more time to rest and spend more time with her. During the creation of Robi, Maya came up with a lot […]

Scientific explanation - Tale 2 Mimi and the voluntary movement

Today you can discover the new tale of Cogni’Junior : Mimi and the voluntary movement We are proposing you a review of the numeric litterature about scientific knowledge that are presented in the tale: le cerveau à tous les nveaux : This website is a gold mine. We are proposing the link to movement pathway. But […]

A dopaminergic 2015 merry christmas

For 2015 end of year, Cogni’Junior is preparing few surprises and here is the first of them. We are offering a comic from our series about neurodegenerative disease: Parkinson. During this moment of family events, perhaps you have a relative that hold this disease. How to explain to children and old children ? We are […]

Meeting Sinterklaas: a brain story

It is ‘present night’ in the Netherlands this Saturday night. Sinterklaas will bring presents to the good children. Did you behave well this year? Are you ready to meet him, and is your brain ready for this too? this blog post is originally available in the donders wonders blog here

What about you doing science ?

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Plushes

Nous vous présentons ici les différentes peluches que nous utilisons lors de nos interventions. Pour chacune d’entre elles, vous trouverez une fiche d’activité à télécharger, suggérant les “défis” à relever par l’enfant lors de leur manipulation, et expliquant les concepts scientifiques sous-jacents.

Les peluches neurones

Les premières peluches a avoir été utilisées dans le cadre de nos interventions Cogni’Junior sont celles d’Alicia Lefebvre, artiste et présidente de l’association Emotions Synesthètes. La peluche reprend l’anatomie d’un neurone (pour un parallèle avec un vrai cliché de cellule, voir ici).

> Le soma (2) contient le noyau de la cellule ainsi que ses gênes et chromosomes

> Les dendrites (1) sont des ramifications recevant les signaux électriques et chimiques en provenance d’autres neurones. Les perles en forme de tube illustrent les récepteurs de neurotransmetteurs. Sur la peluche ici en photo, les perles sont à cheval entre les dendrites et le soma. Par souci d’exactitude scientifique, les nouvelles peluches sont réalisées en plaçant les récepteurs exclusivement sur les dendrites.

> L’axone (4), lui, a pour fonction de transmettre le signal électrique du neurone, commandé dans le soma (2) et partant du cône d’émergence (3). Dans le cerveau, de nombreux neurones sont myélinisés : leurs axones sont entourés d’une gaine de myéline (5), surface lipidique accélérant la transmission de l’information. La peluche a des petits boudins représentant les différents manchons de myéline séparés par des noeuds de Ranvier, endroit où le tissu est plus resserré (6).

> Les terminaisons synaptiques (7), au bout de l’axone, contiennent des neurotransmetteurs permettant une transmission chimique de l’information d’un neurone à l’autre : ce sont les petites perles fixées sur la peluche.

De manière cruciale, les neurones en peluche sont équipés de scratch, ce qui permet d’illustrer la connexion ou formation de synapses entre deux neurones. La manière dont on peut joindre deux peluches correspond au sens de transmission de l’information neuronale : des dendrites aux terminaisons synaptiques. Ainsi, on peut seulement scratcher les terminaisons synaptiques d’un neurone avec les dendrites d’un autre ! On peut cependant scratcher plusieurs peluches ensemble, selon sa dextérité et créer ainsi des réseaux.

Télécharger l’activité

Inspirée par l’histoire de Mimi la microglie et par le travail artistique d’Alicia Lefebvre, Héloïse Théro a voulu prolonger cette initiative et créer des peluches représentant les cellules gliales.

Les microglies

Comme les véritables microglies, les peluches présentent un corps cellulaire allongé, dont partent de nombreuses ramifications. Au centre des microglies, la fermeture éclair s’ouvre, contenant de petits morceaux de scratch. Ceux-ci se retrouvent sur des mini virus et bactéries (eux aussi cousus main). Une fois le contact établi, les virus sont engloutis par la microglie : autrement dit, ils sont phagocytés !

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Les astrocytes

Les peluches astrocytes ont une forme d’étoile (comme l’indique l’étymologie du mot !). Plusieurs dispositifs permettant d’illustrer les différentes fonctions de cette cellule gliale. La pince permet de les accrocher à un tube rouge représentant un vaisseau sanguin, tandis que des boutons de pression sont à apparier avec ceux d’un neurone ou d’une autre cellule gliale. En effet, les astrocytes puisent de l’oxygène et des nutriments dans le sang afin de les redistribuer aux autres cellules. Des aimants, placés sur d’autres parties de la cellule permettent aux astrocytes d’être connectées entre elles. En réalité, elles forment des connexions physiques appelées “jonctions communiquantes”.

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Les oligodendrocytes et cellules de Schwann

Ces cellules permettent de créer la gaine de myéline, qui s’enroule autour de l’axone des neurones. La myéline accélère la transmission des messages électriques qui parcourent les neurones. La peluche figurant sur l’image fait partie de la famille des oligodendrocytes : ses différents prolongements permettent de myéliniser plusieurs neurones dans le système nerveux central (composé du cerveau, du cervelet, du tronc cérébral et de la moelle épinière).

Les cellules de Schwann assurent la même fonction que les oligodendrocytes, mais dans le système nerveux périphérique. Elles ne peuvent en revanche myéliniser qu’un seul neurone. Nous avons donc des peluches semblables à celles des oligodendrocytes, mais n’ayant qu’un seul prolongement.

Télécharger l’activité

> Au fur et à mesure que nos peluches rencontrent enfants et scientifiques, nous continuons à les améliorer. Notre unique objectif est d’arriver à amuser les premiers tout en représentant fidèlement les découvertes des seconds sur l’univers fascinant qu’est notre cerveau. Nous sommes ouverts aux suggestions.

in uncategorized-en by Roselyne CHAUVIN 10 Jan 201609 Mar 2022 0 comments

Games

Une première série de jeux permet la fixation en mémoire des personnages et de leur rôle dans l’histoire. Ces jeux ne visent pas à apprendre des notions explicites, mais plutôt à revenir de manière ludique sur le conte. Ils peuvent donc être utilisés avec des enfants de tout âge. En voici deux exemples.

D’autres jeux permettent de revenir directement sur les concepts appris en cours, sur leur définition et orthographe. Ils sont donc plus difficiles et à utiliser avec des enfants en fin d’école primaire. Des grilles de mots-croisés on par exemple été créées. De plus, certaines écoles achetant des peluches neurones peuvent proposer la fiche ci-dessus aux enfants afin qu’ils associent ce matériel avec un vrai schéma de neurone.

Lors de la semaine du cerveau 2015 à Lille, nous avons conduit des ateliers avec des élèves de 6e et 3e. Nous avons élaboré pour eux un livret de jeux reprenant les notions véhiculées dans nos contes, et contenant des résumés des principales notions scientifiques abordées. Vous pouvez le télécharger en cliquant sur le bouton ci-dessous.

Télécharger le livret

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Brain Puzzle

Nous utilisons classiquement ce puzzle pour introduire les grandes questions sur lesquelles nous nous focaliserons lors des séances, à savoir : à quoi ressemble le cerveau ? A quoi sert-il ? Quelles sont ses différentes parties ? Le terme de “puzzle du cerveau” est en fait incorrect, car nous représentons ici l’encéphale, composé du cerveau, du cervelet et du tronc cérébral.

En utilisant ce matériel, nous avons souhaité diffuser deux niveaux d’information : (a) le découpage anatomique du cerveau, comprenant 4 lobes, et son lien avec le cervelet et le tronc cérébral (b) les fonctions de ces parties.

De manière générale, une telle parcellisation du cerveau amène à discuter la notion de modularité cérébrale, au coeur de nombreuses disciplines des sciences cognitives (psychologie cognitive, neuropsychologie, intelligence artificielle…)

Les 4 lobes cérébraux, le cervelet et le tronc cérébral sont représentés par les plus grosses pièces du puzzle, dans lesquelles sont à emboîter les petites pièces, représentant leurs fonctions.

Explication du puzzle

1. Le cortex préfrontal occupe environ 25% du cerveau humain, contre 14% chez le chimpanzé. Ainsi, on a pu penser que son développement plus important expliquait les capacités humaines considérées comme “supérieures” à celles des grands singes. Cependant, en marge de sa taille, c’est son degré de connectivité avec les autres aires cérébrales qui est important.

En effet, le cortex préfrontal intervient à la fois dans la régulation cognitive et comportementale. Au niveau cognitif, il est lié au raisonnement, à l’abstraction et à la planification. Au niveau comportemental, il joue un rôle dans la régulation des émotions et de la motivation. L’étude du cortex préfrontal est rattachée à celle des fonctions exécutives, permettant à un individu de réguler intentionnellement sa pensée et ses actions en fonction d’un objectif. Parmi les fonctions exécutives, on compte la planification, la mémoire de travail, la flexibilité, l’inhibition, le maintien de l’attention.

Les engrenages représentent cette notion de contrôle, d’effort volontaire, d’organisation. Ce symbole est communément utilisé dans les bandes dessinées pour représenter un personnage qui se concentre, réfléchit intensément.
La bulle “Bla” montre la position de l’aire de Broca, impliquée dans la production du langage, l’articulation (ce qui est à dissocier de la compréhension du langage).

2. Le cortex moteur et le cortex somato-sensoriel jouent un rôle dans la perception de l’image du corps (symbole que nous avons donc choisi) et dans la motricité. Le cortex somato-sensoriel reçoit des différentes parties du corps des informations somesthésiques et proprioceptives, concernant la perception de la position des membres du corps, et du mouvement du corps dans l’espace.

3. Le cortex pariétal

Le cortex pariétal s’active lorsque l’on porte son attention à ce que l’on fait ou à quelque chose de l’environnement. Certaines régions pariétales sont particulièrement co-activées avec certaines régions frontales.

La loupe représente cette capacité à porter son attention sur quelque chose

De plus, un ensemble d’informations transitant du lobe occipital au lobe pariétal forment la “voie du où”. Celle-ci intervient dans la perception de la position du corps par rapport au monde extérieur et aux objets. Elle permet notamment la préhension et la réalisation d’actions adaptées sur des objets.

Le labyrinthe illustre cette capacité à se situer dans l’espace

4. Le cortex occipital permet la vision des formes, des couleurs, du mouvement, ce qui est représenté de manière transparente par l’image d’un oeil.

5. Le cortex temporal joue un rôle important dans la mémoire déclarative, laquelle permet le rappel conscient d’informations. Cette forme de mémoire peut-être dite épisodique (les souvenirs sont replacés dans leur contexte d’acquisition spatio-temporel) ou sémantique (le contexte d’apprentissage n’est pas stocké, ce qui donne l’impression de connaissance générales, telles que par exemple, les définitions de mots du dictionnaire). De plus, des connexions reliant le lobe occipital et le lobe temporal forment la “voie du quoi”, intervenant dans la reconnaissance des objets et dans leur catégorisation, ce qui permet la construction de connaissances à propos d’entités du monde extérieur.

Le livre représenté sur le puzzle vise à traduire cette notion d’information stockée en mémoire.
L’oreille traduit l’emplacement de l’aire de Wernicke, impliquée dans la compréhension du langage. Cette aire est reliée à l’aire de Broca par le faisceau arqué.

6. Le cervelet, ou “petit cerveau”, intervient dans l’équilibre et la régulation du tonus et de la posture. L’image du vélo permet de représenter cette idée. Le cervelet permet aussi la coordination des mouvements volontaires (par exemple, le réglage d’un mouvement de préhension en fonction de la distance à laquelle se situe un objet). Cet aspect est donc à nuancer avec le fait que la pratique du vélo devienne automatique au cours du temps.

7. Le tronc cérébral lie les informations provenant du cerveau, du cervelet et de la moelle épinière. Cette fonction de relais est représentée par la flèche à double sens. Le tronc cérébral contient notamment 12 paires de nerfs crâniens, traitant les informations sensorielles envoyées par les organes de la tête et acheminant les instructions motrices du cerveau. De multiples structures dans le tronc cérébral permettent la régulation des fonctions vitales (respiration, rythme cardiaque), ou la mise en place des conduites d’approche et d’aversion. Un des points communs à tous ces processus est qu’ils se déroulent de manière automatique et non consciente.

Activités autour du puzzle

En classe, nous avons tout d’abord réalisé une activité de “brainstorming”, demandant aux enfants à quoi servait le cerveau. Nous avons ensuite approfondi leurs suggestions en faisant le puzzle. Afin que les élèves puissent participer au maximum, nous leur avons distribué les différentes pièces. Nous avons tout d’abord essayé de fixer une grosse zone du cerveau, en la nommant. Nous avons ensuite demandé aux enfants de rechercher, parmi eux, qui avait la pièce correspondant à la fonction. Une fois trouvée, nous procédions aux explications. Selon les objectifs de la séance, il est possible de placer toutes les zones en les nommant avant de revenir sur leurs fonctions, ou de considérer que la connaissance des lobes est acquise, en se focalisant sur les petites pièces.

Cette activité étant plutôt adaptée pour les élèves d’école élémentaire, nous avons créé deux jeux à destination des collégiens, utilisant le puzzle du cerveau. Nous vous laissons les découvrir en cliquant sur les deux boutons ci-dessous.

Time’s Up Cérébral

Le puzzle en pratique

Ce puzzle a pu prendre une forme réelle grâce à la générosité d’un proche ayant bénévolement travaillé le bois, sur mesure, pour qu’il corresponde à notre patron. Nous l’avons ensuite peint. La peinture rose du cadre permet aux enfants d’écrire à la craie.

Vous pouvez réaliser vous-même un exemplaire en carton solide, en conservant les informations que vous jugez pertinentes pour votre démarche. Nous serions ravies de vous aider pour constuire un patron ou réfléchir aux différentes parties et fonctions à mettre en avant. Aussi, n’hésitez pas à nous contacter !

N.B : Les fonctions représentées ici constituent une liste non exhaustive. Il est possible de se focaliser sur d’autres mécanismes, en fonction des thématiques à aborder en classe.

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Neurosciences and learning

Neurosciences and learning

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OCEANA - Logbook - conference

Kids have the mic! Kids of year 7 succeeded in their challenge: to give a talk in a auditorium with 150 persons in the audience, at AgroParisTech engineering school in Paris. The topic of the talk what: how the brain work, how to optimize learning? All gathered by groups of 2 or 3, talking about […]

OCEANA - Logbook - colaboration

8 years old children, with Claire Birotat-Moncet. Week mid March 2017 by Isabelle Malet After introducing the brain to the kids in multiple sessions, we are preparing a conference. Activities that were done with the class will be presented to an audience of 200 persons. The school approved the invitation from Wax Youth that organise […]

OCEANA : program validation

Our questions: The ability to detect a state of stress, of lack of attention or of emotional overload is not inborn, you need to learn how to do it. To improve it, children first need to be able to perceive such states. The OCEANA team is interested in the ability to transfer this knowledge, i.e. […]

The team

External collaborators: CHARLOTTE CHEREL: young designer, she want to conceive product that engage users, here children, in an active use of their attention. She work today on the creation of object that would help the practice of attentive attendance in class. OCEANA program roles: Team and project management: Roselyne Kit improvement / users feedback […]

OCEANA - Logbook - visit of the lab

While on the french side, our 3 classes continue the teaching and are arriving to the end of it, our first dutch class testing the kit give the teaching a try since January. Kids seems really interested and happy of this knowledge. On the side of the OCEANA team, we are waiting for the detailed […]

OCEANA - Logbook - memory

Week January, 20th 2017 by Isabelle Malet Do I have a good memory? Oh my memory fail me … New chapter with the 8-9 years old children, but how important. Learning, is it memorizing all lessons done in the classroom? So, to begin, all children are going to experiment situation of memorizing. Memory is at […]

OCEANA - Logbook - cerebral plasticity and sessions about emotions

OCEANA - Logbook - Starting with Neuroscience

After the introduction of what is the stress, we move to how the brain works. Children arrived to the question : why do we stress? It’s time to give them some basic information about the brain to see how this can be link to the cause of stress and how we can play on stress […]

OCEANA – logbook – End of session about Stress

week 3 : frozen pictures In the OCEANA program, we are progressing slowly on the sessions about stress. After being confronted to a stressful situation : make a oral presentation, it’s time to look at video make during the week and the previous session. Will the children be able to catch stress signs ? […]

OCEANA : What is it?

OCEANA for ‘ Optimisation of Capabilities to Engage and Acquire, using neuroscientific methods’. What is the program OCEANA? The objective of this program is to raise the awareness of students via their abilities to pay attention to and learn, in order to optimize their learning process. In this medium, where schools and researchers come […]

OCEANA : Why do we teach neuroscience in class?

CURRENT SITUATION Our society evolves as fast at new technological developments do. We want our commodities to be faster and more attractive. Teachers have difficulty with the lack of attention children display in class. Schools are now faced with this question of how to improve attention and learning: the directors and teachers need to work together to […]

OCEANA : References

Discover our readings around the OCEANA program: View my Flipboard Magazine. Questionnaires: Here is a list of questionnaires used in research to study meditation and education across the literature. If you wish to use them, you should verify the usage licence, if the questionnaire is use for clinical purpose or school purpose : question can […]

OCEANA - Logbook - bonus

Novelty in the program The arrival of a 5 years old class in the program We had the pleasure to give the start to a new class, a 5 years old class from Paris. So for them, it was the stage of the initial questionnaires. A challenge for such a young participant, they have to […]

OCEANA – Logbook – Week 2

A stressful situation This second week, it’s the first activity session : the face-to-face with a stressful situation. Our two pilot class work in partnership. Students are making oral presentations (about a talent) and make movie of themselves. Videos will be sent to the other class. … So unknown students, on the other side […]

OCEANA - Logbook - Week 1

Between the 19 and the 28 f September 2016, Caroline and Isabelle (and Caire) give initial questionnaire to children to fill in. Theses questionnaire were testing the focus, empathy, or emotion perception skills of students. Rectifications Firsts needed adaptations appeared quickly: the idea to help student to answer with picture representing the Likert scale (5 choice […]

Donders Innovation Voucher

Cogni’Junior is very pleased to announce that the OCEANA program is supported by the Donders Institute, an major and international actor of the research in cognitive science. The Donders Institute The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour is a world-class research centre devoted to understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of human cognition and behavior in […]

OCEANA : education materials

Designers, teachers and researchers are coming together to create a multidisciplinary team and to engage in a “neuro-responsible” project: tools and content get scientific validation steps by creators of the program. The Teaching Kit: 3 goals 1) apprehend Most children have some concept of the brain, and what it does, but not all of this information […]

Evolution of a speaking brain

Plushes

Nous vous présentons ici les différentes peluches que nous utilisons lors de nos interventions. Pour chacune d’entre elles, vous trouverez une fiche d’activité à télécharger, suggérant les “défis” à relever par l’enfant lors de leur manipulation, et expliquant les concepts scientifiques sous-jacents. Les peluches neurones Les premières peluches a avoir été utilisées dans le cadre […]

Games

Une première série de jeux permet la fixation en mémoire des personnages et de leur rôle dans l’histoire. Ces jeux ne visent pas à apprendre des notions explicites, mais plutôt à revenir de manière ludique sur le conte. Ils peuvent donc être utilisés avec des enfants de tout âge. En voici deux exemples. […]

Brain Puzzle

Nous utilisons classiquement ce puzzle pour introduire les grandes questions sur lesquelles nous nous focaliserons lors des séances, à savoir : à quoi ressemble le cerveau ? A quoi sert-il ? Quelles sont ses différentes parties ? Le terme de “puzzle du cerveau” est en fait incorrect, car nous représentons ici l’encéphale, composé du cerveau, du cervelet […]

Neurosciences and learning

Parkinson

the stroke

Alzheimer disease

Mimi - the comics - episode 4

Mimi - the comics - episode 3

Mimi - the comics - episode 2

Mimi - the comics - episode 1

The adventure of Mimi

Mimi the microglia is the first character created by Cogni’Junior. It’s a glial cell of the immune system traveling inside the brain and discovering how it works. The tale was created in september 2013. Mimi’s adventure developped in comics, with a target, this time, older. We let you discover the adventure and hope that you […]

Mimi and the voluntary movement

Adventures of Mimi : Fronti, a neuron of the frontal cortex, is surprised that the order of movement that him and his colleagues sent to other neurons isn’t follow by confirmation of execution. He is a bit concerned. In the neighborhood, our friend Mimi the microglia decide to help to find where the movement order […]

Mimi in the land of place cells

Mimi in the land of place cells Mimi, out little microglia, immune cell of the brain, will have new adventures. She is surprised that detailed information come from neurons of a brain region, the hippocampus, when we are searching for something. Neurons are always happy to call them for help, they never failed when it’s […]

Robi the Robot

The story of Robi: Maya see her mother overloaded by responsabilities. With the help of her grand-mother, she build, hiden, a robot : Robi. She wish that this machine help her mother to have more time to rest and spend more time with her. During the creation of Robi, Maya came up with a lot […]

Scientific explanation - Tale 2 Mimi and the voluntary movement

Today you can discover the new tale of Cogni’Junior : Mimi and the voluntary movement We are proposing you a review of the numeric litterature about scientific knowledge that are presented in the tale: le cerveau à tous les nveaux : This website is a gold mine. We are proposing the link to movement pathway. But […]

A dopaminergic 2015 merry christmas

For 2015 end of year, Cogni’Junior is preparing few surprises and here is the first of them. We are offering a comic from our series about neurodegenerative disease: Parkinson. During this moment of family events, perhaps you have a relative that hold this disease. How to explain to children and old children ? We are […]

Meeting Sinterklaas: a brain story

It is ‘present night’ in the Netherlands this Saturday night. Sinterklaas will bring presents to the good children. Did you behave well this year? Are you ready to meet him, and is your brain ready for this too? this blog post is originally available in the donders wonders blog here

What about you doing science ?

Original article can be found on the donders wonders blog READ ARTICLE

in uncategorized-en by Roselyne CHAUVIN 10 Jan 201609 Mar 2022 0 comments

Parkinson

Parkinson

This comic was created for the brain awareness week 2015.

Download the comic

Licence Creative Commons Attribution

OCEANA - Logbook - conference

Kids have the mic! Kids of year 7 succeeded in their challenge: to give a talk in a auditorium with 150 persons in the audience, at AgroParisTech engineering school in Paris. The topic of the talk what: how the brain work, how to optimize learning? All gathered by groups of 2 or 3, talking about […]

OCEANA - Logbook - colaboration

8 years old children, with Claire Birotat-Moncet. Week mid March 2017 by Isabelle Malet After introducing the brain to the kids in multiple sessions, we are preparing a conference. Activities that were done with the class will be presented to an audience of 200 persons. The school approved the invitation from Wax Youth that organise […]

OCEANA : program validation

Our questions: The ability to detect a state of stress, of lack of attention or of emotional overload is not inborn, you need to learn how to do it. To improve it, children first need to be able to perceive such states. The OCEANA team is interested in the ability to transfer this knowledge, i.e. […]

The team

External collaborators: CHARLOTTE CHEREL: young designer, she want to conceive product that engage users, here children, in an active use of their attention. She work today on the creation of object that would help the practice of attentive attendance in class. OCEANA program roles: Team and project management: Roselyne Kit improvement / users feedback […]

OCEANA - Logbook - visit of the lab

While on the french side, our 3 classes continue the teaching and are arriving to the end of it, our first dutch class testing the kit give the teaching a try since January. Kids seems really interested and happy of this knowledge. On the side of the OCEANA team, we are waiting for the detailed […]

OCEANA - Logbook - memory

Week January, 20th 2017 by Isabelle Malet Do I have a good memory? Oh my memory fail me … New chapter with the 8-9 years old children, but how important. Learning, is it memorizing all lessons done in the classroom? So, to begin, all children are going to experiment situation of memorizing. Memory is at […]

OCEANA - Logbook - cerebral plasticity and sessions about emotions

OCEANA - Logbook - Starting with Neuroscience

After the introduction of what is the stress, we move to how the brain works. Children arrived to the question : why do we stress? It’s time to give them some basic information about the brain to see how this can be link to the cause of stress and how we can play on stress […]

OCEANA – logbook – End of session about Stress

week 3 : frozen pictures In the OCEANA program, we are progressing slowly on the sessions about stress. After being confronted to a stressful situation : make a oral presentation, it’s time to look at video make during the week and the previous session. Will the children be able to catch stress signs ? […]

OCEANA : What is it?

OCEANA for ‘ Optimisation of Capabilities to Engage and Acquire, using neuroscientific methods’. What is the program OCEANA? The objective of this program is to raise the awareness of students via their abilities to pay attention to and learn, in order to optimize their learning process. In this medium, where schools and researchers come […]

OCEANA : Why do we teach neuroscience in class?

CURRENT SITUATION Our society evolves as fast at new technological developments do. We want our commodities to be faster and more attractive. Teachers have difficulty with the lack of attention children display in class. Schools are now faced with this question of how to improve attention and learning: the directors and teachers need to work together to […]

OCEANA : References

Discover our readings around the OCEANA program: View my Flipboard Magazine. Questionnaires: Here is a list of questionnaires used in research to study meditation and education across the literature. If you wish to use them, you should verify the usage licence, if the questionnaire is use for clinical purpose or school purpose : question can […]

OCEANA - Logbook - bonus

Novelty in the program The arrival of a 5 years old class in the program We had the pleasure to give the start to a new class, a 5 years old class from Paris. So for them, it was the stage of the initial questionnaires. A challenge for such a young participant, they have to […]

OCEANA – Logbook – Week 2

A stressful situation This second week, it’s the first activity session : the face-to-face with a stressful situation. Our two pilot class work in partnership. Students are making oral presentations (about a talent) and make movie of themselves. Videos will be sent to the other class. … So unknown students, on the other side […]

OCEANA - Logbook - Week 1

Between the 19 and the 28 f September 2016, Caroline and Isabelle (and Caire) give initial questionnaire to children to fill in. Theses questionnaire were testing the focus, empathy, or emotion perception skills of students. Rectifications Firsts needed adaptations appeared quickly: the idea to help student to answer with picture representing the Likert scale (5 choice […]

Donders Innovation Voucher

Cogni’Junior is very pleased to announce that the OCEANA program is supported by the Donders Institute, an major and international actor of the research in cognitive science. The Donders Institute The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour is a world-class research centre devoted to understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of human cognition and behavior in […]

OCEANA : education materials

Designers, teachers and researchers are coming together to create a multidisciplinary team and to engage in a “neuro-responsible” project: tools and content get scientific validation steps by creators of the program. The Teaching Kit: 3 goals 1) apprehend Most children have some concept of the brain, and what it does, but not all of this information […]

Evolution of a speaking brain

Plushes

Nous vous présentons ici les différentes peluches que nous utilisons lors de nos interventions. Pour chacune d’entre elles, vous trouverez une fiche d’activité à télécharger, suggérant les “défis” à relever par l’enfant lors de leur manipulation, et expliquant les concepts scientifiques sous-jacents. Les peluches neurones Les premières peluches a avoir été utilisées dans le cadre […]

Games

Une première série de jeux permet la fixation en mémoire des personnages et de leur rôle dans l’histoire. Ces jeux ne visent pas à apprendre des notions explicites, mais plutôt à revenir de manière ludique sur le conte. Ils peuvent donc être utilisés avec des enfants de tout âge. En voici deux exemples. […]

Brain Puzzle

Nous utilisons classiquement ce puzzle pour introduire les grandes questions sur lesquelles nous nous focaliserons lors des séances, à savoir : à quoi ressemble le cerveau ? A quoi sert-il ? Quelles sont ses différentes parties ? Le terme de “puzzle du cerveau” est en fait incorrect, car nous représentons ici l’encéphale, composé du cerveau, du cervelet […]

Neurosciences and learning

Parkinson

the stroke

Alzheimer disease

Mimi - the comics - episode 4

Mimi - the comics - episode 3

Mimi - the comics - episode 2

Mimi - the comics - episode 1

The adventure of Mimi

Mimi the microglia is the first character created by Cogni’Junior. It’s a glial cell of the immune system traveling inside the brain and discovering how it works. The tale was created in september 2013. Mimi’s adventure developped in comics, with a target, this time, older. We let you discover the adventure and hope that you […]

Mimi and the voluntary movement

Adventures of Mimi : Fronti, a neuron of the frontal cortex, is surprised that the order of movement that him and his colleagues sent to other neurons isn’t follow by confirmation of execution. He is a bit concerned. In the neighborhood, our friend Mimi the microglia decide to help to find where the movement order […]

Mimi in the land of place cells

Mimi in the land of place cells Mimi, out little microglia, immune cell of the brain, will have new adventures. She is surprised that detailed information come from neurons of a brain region, the hippocampus, when we are searching for something. Neurons are always happy to call them for help, they never failed when it’s […]

Robi the Robot

The story of Robi: Maya see her mother overloaded by responsabilities. With the help of her grand-mother, she build, hiden, a robot : Robi. She wish that this machine help her mother to have more time to rest and spend more time with her. During the creation of Robi, Maya came up with a lot […]

Scientific explanation - Tale 2 Mimi and the voluntary movement

Today you can discover the new tale of Cogni’Junior : Mimi and the voluntary movement We are proposing you a review of the numeric litterature about scientific knowledge that are presented in the tale: le cerveau à tous les nveaux : This website is a gold mine. We are proposing the link to movement pathway. But […]

A dopaminergic 2015 merry christmas

For 2015 end of year, Cogni’Junior is preparing few surprises and here is the first of them. We are offering a comic from our series about neurodegenerative disease: Parkinson. During this moment of family events, perhaps you have a relative that hold this disease. How to explain to children and old children ? We are […]

Meeting Sinterklaas: a brain story

It is ‘present night’ in the Netherlands this Saturday night. Sinterklaas will bring presents to the good children. Did you behave well this year? Are you ready to meet him, and is your brain ready for this too? this blog post is originally available in the donders wonders blog here

What about you doing science ?

Original article can be found on the donders wonders blog READ ARTICLE

in uncategorized-en by Roselyne CHAUVIN 10 Jan 201609 Mar 2022 0 comments

the stroke

The Stroke

This comic xas created for the brain awareness week 2015.

Download the comic

Licence Creative Commons Attribution

OCEANA - Logbook - conference

Kids have the mic! Kids of year 7 succeeded in their challenge: to give a talk in a auditorium with 150 persons in the audience, at AgroParisTech engineering school in Paris. The topic of the talk what: how the brain work, how to optimize learning? All gathered by groups of 2 or 3, talking about […]

OCEANA - Logbook - colaboration

8 years old children, with Claire Birotat-Moncet. Week mid March 2017 by Isabelle Malet After introducing the brain to the kids in multiple sessions, we are preparing a conference. Activities that were done with the class will be presented to an audience of 200 persons. The school approved the invitation from Wax Youth that organise […]

OCEANA : program validation

Our questions: The ability to detect a state of stress, of lack of attention or of emotional overload is not inborn, you need to learn how to do it. To improve it, children first need to be able to perceive such states. The OCEANA team is interested in the ability to transfer this knowledge, i.e. […]

The team

External collaborators: CHARLOTTE CHEREL: young designer, she want to conceive product that engage users, here children, in an active use of their attention. She work today on the creation of object that would help the practice of attentive attendance in class. OCEANA program roles: Team and project management: Roselyne Kit improvement / users feedback […]

OCEANA - Logbook - visit of the lab

While on the french side, our 3 classes continue the teaching and are arriving to the end of it, our first dutch class testing the kit give the teaching a try since January. Kids seems really interested and happy of this knowledge. On the side of the OCEANA team, we are waiting for the detailed […]

OCEANA - Logbook - memory

Week January, 20th 2017 by Isabelle Malet Do I have a good memory? Oh my memory fail me … New chapter with the 8-9 years old children, but how important. Learning, is it memorizing all lessons done in the classroom? So, to begin, all children are going to experiment situation of memorizing. Memory is at […]

OCEANA - Logbook - cerebral plasticity and sessions about emotions

OCEANA - Logbook - Starting with Neuroscience

After the introduction of what is the stress, we move to how the brain works. Children arrived to the question : why do we stress? It’s time to give them some basic information about the brain to see how this can be link to the cause of stress and how we can play on stress […]

OCEANA – logbook – End of session about Stress

week 3 : frozen pictures In the OCEANA program, we are progressing slowly on the sessions about stress. After being confronted to a stressful situation : make a oral presentation, it’s time to look at video make during the week and the previous session. Will the children be able to catch stress signs ? […]

OCEANA : What is it?

OCEANA for ‘ Optimisation of Capabilities to Engage and Acquire, using neuroscientific methods’. What is the program OCEANA? The objective of this program is to raise the awareness of students via their abilities to pay attention to and learn, in order to optimize their learning process. In this medium, where schools and researchers come […]

OCEANA : Why do we teach neuroscience in class?

CURRENT SITUATION Our society evolves as fast at new technological developments do. We want our commodities to be faster and more attractive. Teachers have difficulty with the lack of attention children display in class. Schools are now faced with this question of how to improve attention and learning: the directors and teachers need to work together to […]

OCEANA : References

Discover our readings around the OCEANA program: View my Flipboard Magazine. Questionnaires: Here is a list of questionnaires used in research to study meditation and education across the literature. If you wish to use them, you should verify the usage licence, if the questionnaire is use for clinical purpose or school purpose : question can […]

OCEANA - Logbook - bonus

Novelty in the program The arrival of a 5 years old class in the program We had the pleasure to give the start to a new class, a 5 years old class from Paris. So for them, it was the stage of the initial questionnaires. A challenge for such a young participant, they have to […]

OCEANA – Logbook – Week 2

A stressful situation This second week, it’s the first activity session : the face-to-face with a stressful situation. Our two pilot class work in partnership. Students are making oral presentations (about a talent) and make movie of themselves. Videos will be sent to the other class. … So unknown students, on the other side […]

OCEANA - Logbook - Week 1

Between the 19 and the 28 f September 2016, Caroline and Isabelle (and Caire) give initial questionnaire to children to fill in. Theses questionnaire were testing the focus, empathy, or emotion perception skills of students. Rectifications Firsts needed adaptations appeared quickly: the idea to help student to answer with picture representing the Likert scale (5 choice […]

Donders Innovation Voucher

Cogni’Junior is very pleased to announce that the OCEANA program is supported by the Donders Institute, an major and international actor of the research in cognitive science. The Donders Institute The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour is a world-class research centre devoted to understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of human cognition and behavior in […]

OCEANA : education materials

Designers, teachers and researchers are coming together to create a multidisciplinary team and to engage in a “neuro-responsible” project: tools and content get scientific validation steps by creators of the program. The Teaching Kit: 3 goals 1) apprehend Most children have some concept of the brain, and what it does, but not all of this information […]

Evolution of a speaking brain

Plushes

Nous vous présentons ici les différentes peluches que nous utilisons lors de nos interventions. Pour chacune d’entre elles, vous trouverez une fiche d’activité à télécharger, suggérant les “défis” à relever par l’enfant lors de leur manipulation, et expliquant les concepts scientifiques sous-jacents. Les peluches neurones Les premières peluches a avoir été utilisées dans le cadre […]

Games

Une première série de jeux permet la fixation en mémoire des personnages et de leur rôle dans l’histoire. Ces jeux ne visent pas à apprendre des notions explicites, mais plutôt à revenir de manière ludique sur le conte. Ils peuvent donc être utilisés avec des enfants de tout âge. En voici deux exemples. […]

Brain Puzzle

Nous utilisons classiquement ce puzzle pour introduire les grandes questions sur lesquelles nous nous focaliserons lors des séances, à savoir : à quoi ressemble le cerveau ? A quoi sert-il ? Quelles sont ses différentes parties ? Le terme de “puzzle du cerveau” est en fait incorrect, car nous représentons ici l’encéphale, composé du cerveau, du cervelet […]

Neurosciences and learning

Parkinson

the stroke

Alzheimer disease

Mimi - the comics - episode 4

Mimi - the comics - episode 3

Mimi - the comics - episode 2

Mimi - the comics - episode 1

The adventure of Mimi

Mimi the microglia is the first character created by Cogni’Junior. It’s a glial cell of the immune system traveling inside the brain and discovering how it works. The tale was created in september 2013. Mimi’s adventure developped in comics, with a target, this time, older. We let you discover the adventure and hope that you […]

Mimi and the voluntary movement

Adventures of Mimi : Fronti, a neuron of the frontal cortex, is surprised that the order of movement that him and his colleagues sent to other neurons isn’t follow by confirmation of execution. He is a bit concerned. In the neighborhood, our friend Mimi the microglia decide to help to find where the movement order […]

Mimi in the land of place cells

Mimi in the land of place cells Mimi, out little microglia, immune cell of the brain, will have new adventures. She is surprised that detailed information come from neurons of a brain region, the hippocampus, when we are searching for something. Neurons are always happy to call them for help, they never failed when it’s […]

Robi the Robot

The story of Robi: Maya see her mother overloaded by responsabilities. With the help of her grand-mother, she build, hiden, a robot : Robi. She wish that this machine help her mother to have more time to rest and spend more time with her. During the creation of Robi, Maya came up with a lot […]

Scientific explanation - Tale 2 Mimi and the voluntary movement

Today you can discover the new tale of Cogni’Junior : Mimi and the voluntary movement We are proposing you a review of the numeric litterature about scientific knowledge that are presented in the tale: le cerveau à tous les nveaux : This website is a gold mine. We are proposing the link to movement pathway. But […]

A dopaminergic 2015 merry christmas

For 2015 end of year, Cogni’Junior is preparing few surprises and here is the first of them. We are offering a comic from our series about neurodegenerative disease: Parkinson. During this moment of family events, perhaps you have a relative that hold this disease. How to explain to children and old children ? We are […]

Meeting Sinterklaas: a brain story

It is ‘present night’ in the Netherlands this Saturday night. Sinterklaas will bring presents to the good children. Did you behave well this year? Are you ready to meet him, and is your brain ready for this too? this blog post is originally available in the donders wonders blog here

What about you doing science ?

Original article can be found on the donders wonders blog READ ARTICLE

in uncategorized-en by Roselyne CHAUVIN 10 Jan 201609 Mar 2022 0 comments

Alzheimer disease

Alzheimer disease

This comic was created for the brain awareness week 2015.

Download the comic

Licence Creative Commons Attribution

OCEANA - Logbook - conference

Kids have the mic! Kids of year 7 succeeded in their challenge: to give a talk in a auditorium with 150 persons in the audience, at AgroParisTech engineering school in Paris. The topic of the talk what: how the brain work, how to optimize learning? All gathered by groups of 2 or 3, talking about […]

OCEANA - Logbook - colaboration

8 years old children, with Claire Birotat-Moncet. Week mid March 2017 by Isabelle Malet After introducing the brain to the kids in multiple sessions, we are preparing a conference. Activities that were done with the class will be presented to an audience of 200 persons. The school approved the invitation from Wax Youth that organise […]

OCEANA : program validation

Our questions: The ability to detect a state of stress, of lack of attention or of emotional overload is not inborn, you need to learn how to do it. To improve it, children first need to be able to perceive such states. The OCEANA team is interested in the ability to transfer this knowledge, i.e. […]

The team

External collaborators: CHARLOTTE CHEREL: young designer, she want to conceive product that engage users, here children, in an active use of their attention. She work today on the creation of object that would help the practice of attentive attendance in class. OCEANA program roles: Team and project management: Roselyne Kit improvement / users feedback […]

OCEANA - Logbook - visit of the lab

While on the french side, our 3 classes continue the teaching and are arriving to the end of it, our first dutch class testing the kit give the teaching a try since January. Kids seems really interested and happy of this knowledge. On the side of the OCEANA team, we are waiting for the detailed […]

OCEANA - Logbook - memory

Week January, 20th 2017 by Isabelle Malet Do I have a good memory? Oh my memory fail me … New chapter with the 8-9 years old children, but how important. Learning, is it memorizing all lessons done in the classroom? So, to begin, all children are going to experiment situation of memorizing. Memory is at […]

OCEANA - Logbook - cerebral plasticity and sessions about emotions

OCEANA - Logbook - Starting with Neuroscience

After the introduction of what is the stress, we move to how the brain works. Children arrived to the question : why do we stress? It’s time to give them some basic information about the brain to see how this can be link to the cause of stress and how we can play on stress […]

OCEANA – logbook – End of session about Stress

week 3 : frozen pictures In the OCEANA program, we are progressing slowly on the sessions about stress. After being confronted to a stressful situation : make a oral presentation, it’s time to look at video make during the week and the previous session. Will the children be able to catch stress signs ? […]

OCEANA : What is it?

OCEANA for ‘ Optimisation of Capabilities to Engage and Acquire, using neuroscientific methods’. What is the program OCEANA? The objective of this program is to raise the awareness of students via their abilities to pay attention to and learn, in order to optimize their learning process. In this medium, where schools and researchers come […]

OCEANA : Why do we teach neuroscience in class?

CURRENT SITUATION Our society evolves as fast at new technological developments do. We want our commodities to be faster and more attractive. Teachers have difficulty with the lack of attention children display in class. Schools are now faced with this question of how to improve attention and learning: the directors and teachers need to work together to […]

OCEANA : References

Discover our readings around the OCEANA program: View my Flipboard Magazine. Questionnaires: Here is a list of questionnaires used in research to study meditation and education across the literature. If you wish to use them, you should verify the usage licence, if the questionnaire is use for clinical purpose or school purpose : question can […]

OCEANA - Logbook - bonus

Novelty in the program The arrival of a 5 years old class in the program We had the pleasure to give the start to a new class, a 5 years old class from Paris. So for them, it was the stage of the initial questionnaires. A challenge for such a young participant, they have to […]

OCEANA – Logbook – Week 2

A stressful situation This second week, it’s the first activity session : the face-to-face with a stressful situation. Our two pilot class work in partnership. Students are making oral presentations (about a talent) and make movie of themselves. Videos will be sent to the other class. … So unknown students, on the other side […]

OCEANA - Logbook - Week 1

Between the 19 and the 28 f September 2016, Caroline and Isabelle (and Caire) give initial questionnaire to children to fill in. Theses questionnaire were testing the focus, empathy, or emotion perception skills of students. Rectifications Firsts needed adaptations appeared quickly: the idea to help student to answer with picture representing the Likert scale (5 choice […]

Donders Innovation Voucher

Cogni’Junior is very pleased to announce that the OCEANA program is supported by the Donders Institute, an major and international actor of the research in cognitive science. The Donders Institute The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour is a world-class research centre devoted to understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of human cognition and behavior in […]

OCEANA : education materials

Designers, teachers and researchers are coming together to create a multidisciplinary team and to engage in a “neuro-responsible” project: tools and content get scientific validation steps by creators of the program. The Teaching Kit: 3 goals 1) apprehend Most children have some concept of the brain, and what it does, but not all of this information […]

Evolution of a speaking brain

Plushes

Nous vous présentons ici les différentes peluches que nous utilisons lors de nos interventions. Pour chacune d’entre elles, vous trouverez une fiche d’activité à télécharger, suggérant les “défis” à relever par l’enfant lors de leur manipulation, et expliquant les concepts scientifiques sous-jacents. Les peluches neurones Les premières peluches a avoir été utilisées dans le cadre […]

Games

Une première série de jeux permet la fixation en mémoire des personnages et de leur rôle dans l’histoire. Ces jeux ne visent pas à apprendre des notions explicites, mais plutôt à revenir de manière ludique sur le conte. Ils peuvent donc être utilisés avec des enfants de tout âge. En voici deux exemples. […]

Brain Puzzle

Nous utilisons classiquement ce puzzle pour introduire les grandes questions sur lesquelles nous nous focaliserons lors des séances, à savoir : à quoi ressemble le cerveau ? A quoi sert-il ? Quelles sont ses différentes parties ? Le terme de “puzzle du cerveau” est en fait incorrect, car nous représentons ici l’encéphale, composé du cerveau, du cervelet […]

Neurosciences and learning

Parkinson

the stroke

Alzheimer disease

Mimi - the comics - episode 4

Mimi - the comics - episode 3

Mimi - the comics - episode 2

Mimi - the comics - episode 1

The adventure of Mimi

Mimi the microglia is the first character created by Cogni’Junior. It’s a glial cell of the immune system traveling inside the brain and discovering how it works. The tale was created in september 2013. Mimi’s adventure developped in comics, with a target, this time, older. We let you discover the adventure and hope that you […]

Mimi and the voluntary movement

Adventures of Mimi : Fronti, a neuron of the frontal cortex, is surprised that the order of movement that him and his colleagues sent to other neurons isn’t follow by confirmation of execution. He is a bit concerned. In the neighborhood, our friend Mimi the microglia decide to help to find where the movement order […]

Mimi in the land of place cells

Mimi in the land of place cells Mimi, out little microglia, immune cell of the brain, will have new adventures. She is surprised that detailed information come from neurons of a brain region, the hippocampus, when we are searching for something. Neurons are always happy to call them for help, they never failed when it’s […]

Robi the Robot

The story of Robi: Maya see her mother overloaded by responsabilities. With the help of her grand-mother, she build, hiden, a robot : Robi. She wish that this machine help her mother to have more time to rest and spend more time with her. During the creation of Robi, Maya came up with a lot […]

Scientific explanation - Tale 2 Mimi and the voluntary movement

Today you can discover the new tale of Cogni’Junior : Mimi and the voluntary movement We are proposing you a review of the numeric litterature about scientific knowledge that are presented in the tale: le cerveau à tous les nveaux : This website is a gold mine. We are proposing the link to movement pathway. But […]

A dopaminergic 2015 merry christmas

For 2015 end of year, Cogni’Junior is preparing few surprises and here is the first of them. We are offering a comic from our series about neurodegenerative disease: Parkinson. During this moment of family events, perhaps you have a relative that hold this disease. How to explain to children and old children ? We are […]

Meeting Sinterklaas: a brain story

It is ‘present night’ in the Netherlands this Saturday night. Sinterklaas will bring presents to the good children. Did you behave well this year? Are you ready to meet him, and is your brain ready for this too? this blog post is originally available in the donders wonders blog here

What about you doing science ?

Original article can be found on the donders wonders blog READ ARTICLE

in uncategorized-en by Roselyne CHAUVIN 10 Jan 201609 Mar 2022 0 comments

Mimi – the comics – episode 4

Discovering the episode 4

The fourth episode is appeared in the number 23, of september 2015.

Télécharger l’épisode 4

Licence Creative Commons Attribution

OCEANA - Logbook - conference

Kids have the mic! Kids of year 7 succeeded in their challenge: to give a talk in a auditorium with 150 persons in the audience, at AgroParisTech engineering school in Paris. The topic of the talk what: how the brain work, how to optimize learning? All gathered by groups of 2 or 3, talking about […]

OCEANA - Logbook - colaboration

8 years old children, with Claire Birotat-Moncet. Week mid March 2017 by Isabelle Malet After introducing the brain to the kids in multiple sessions, we are preparing a conference. Activities that were done with the class will be presented to an audience of 200 persons. The school approved the invitation from Wax Youth that organise […]

OCEANA : program validation

Our questions: The ability to detect a state of stress, of lack of attention or of emotional overload is not inborn, you need to learn how to do it. To improve it, children first need to be able to perceive such states. The OCEANA team is interested in the ability to transfer this knowledge, i.e. […]

The team

External collaborators: CHARLOTTE CHEREL: young designer, she want to conceive product that engage users, here children, in an active use of their attention. She work today on the creation of object that would help the practice of attentive attendance in class. OCEANA program roles: Team and project management: Roselyne Kit improvement / users feedback […]

OCEANA - Logbook - visit of the lab

While on the french side, our 3 classes continue the teaching and are arriving to the end of it, our first dutch class testing the kit give the teaching a try since January. Kids seems really interested and happy of this knowledge. On the side of the OCEANA team, we are waiting for the detailed […]

OCEANA - Logbook - memory

Week January, 20th 2017 by Isabelle Malet Do I have a good memory? Oh my memory fail me … New chapter with the 8-9 years old children, but how important. Learning, is it memorizing all lessons done in the classroom? So, to begin, all children are going to experiment situation of memorizing. Memory is at […]

OCEANA - Logbook - cerebral plasticity and sessions about emotions

OCEANA - Logbook - Starting with Neuroscience

After the introduction of what is the stress, we move to how the brain works. Children arrived to the question : why do we stress? It’s time to give them some basic information about the brain to see how this can be link to the cause of stress and how we can play on stress […]

OCEANA – logbook – End of session about Stress

week 3 : frozen pictures In the OCEANA program, we are progressing slowly on the sessions about stress. After being confronted to a stressful situation : make a oral presentation, it’s time to look at video make during the week and the previous session. Will the children be able to catch stress signs ? […]

OCEANA : What is it?

OCEANA for ‘ Optimisation of Capabilities to Engage and Acquire, using neuroscientific methods’. What is the program OCEANA? The objective of this program is to raise the awareness of students via their abilities to pay attention to and learn, in order to optimize their learning process. In this medium, where schools and researchers come […]

OCEANA : Why do we teach neuroscience in class?

CURRENT SITUATION Our society evolves as fast at new technological developments do. We want our commodities to be faster and more attractive. Teachers have difficulty with the lack of attention children display in class. Schools are now faced with this question of how to improve attention and learning: the directors and teachers need to work together to […]

OCEANA : References

Discover our readings around the OCEANA program: View my Flipboard Magazine. Questionnaires: Here is a list of questionnaires used in research to study meditation and education across the literature. If you wish to use them, you should verify the usage licence, if the questionnaire is use for clinical purpose or school purpose : question can […]

OCEANA - Logbook - bonus

Novelty in the program The arrival of a 5 years old class in the program We had the pleasure to give the start to a new class, a 5 years old class from Paris. So for them, it was the stage of the initial questionnaires. A challenge for such a young participant, they have to […]

OCEANA – Logbook – Week 2

A stressful situation This second week, it’s the first activity session : the face-to-face with a stressful situation. Our two pilot class work in partnership. Students are making oral presentations (about a talent) and make movie of themselves. Videos will be sent to the other class. … So unknown students, on the other side […]

OCEANA - Logbook - Week 1

Between the 19 and the 28 f September 2016, Caroline and Isabelle (and Caire) give initial questionnaire to children to fill in. Theses questionnaire were testing the focus, empathy, or emotion perception skills of students. Rectifications Firsts needed adaptations appeared quickly: the idea to help student to answer with picture representing the Likert scale (5 choice […]

Donders Innovation Voucher

Cogni’Junior is very pleased to announce that the OCEANA program is supported by the Donders Institute, an major and international actor of the research in cognitive science. The Donders Institute The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour is a world-class research centre devoted to understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of human cognition and behavior in […]

OCEANA : education materials

Designers, teachers and researchers are coming together to create a multidisciplinary team and to engage in a “neuro-responsible” project: tools and content get scientific validation steps by creators of the program. The Teaching Kit: 3 goals 1) apprehend Most children have some concept of the brain, and what it does, but not all of this information […]

Evolution of a speaking brain

Plushes

Nous vous présentons ici les différentes peluches que nous utilisons lors de nos interventions. Pour chacune d’entre elles, vous trouverez une fiche d’activité à télécharger, suggérant les “défis” à relever par l’enfant lors de leur manipulation, et expliquant les concepts scientifiques sous-jacents. Les peluches neurones Les premières peluches a avoir été utilisées dans le cadre […]

Games

Une première série de jeux permet la fixation en mémoire des personnages et de leur rôle dans l’histoire. Ces jeux ne visent pas à apprendre des notions explicites, mais plutôt à revenir de manière ludique sur le conte. Ils peuvent donc être utilisés avec des enfants de tout âge. En voici deux exemples. […]

Brain Puzzle

Nous utilisons classiquement ce puzzle pour introduire les grandes questions sur lesquelles nous nous focaliserons lors des séances, à savoir : à quoi ressemble le cerveau ? A quoi sert-il ? Quelles sont ses différentes parties ? Le terme de “puzzle du cerveau” est en fait incorrect, car nous représentons ici l’encéphale, composé du cerveau, du cervelet […]

Neurosciences and learning

Parkinson

the stroke

Alzheimer disease

Mimi - the comics - episode 4

Mimi - the comics - episode 3

Mimi - the comics - episode 2

Mimi - the comics - episode 1

The adventure of Mimi

Mimi the microglia is the first character created by Cogni’Junior. It’s a glial cell of the immune system traveling inside the brain and discovering how it works. The tale was created in september 2013. Mimi’s adventure developped in comics, with a target, this time, older. We let you discover the adventure and hope that you […]

Mimi and the voluntary movement

Adventures of Mimi : Fronti, a neuron of the frontal cortex, is surprised that the order of movement that him and his colleagues sent to other neurons isn’t follow by confirmation of execution. He is a bit concerned. In the neighborhood, our friend Mimi the microglia decide to help to find where the movement order […]

Mimi in the land of place cells

Mimi in the land of place cells Mimi, out little microglia, immune cell of the brain, will have new adventures. She is surprised that detailed information come from neurons of a brain region, the hippocampus, when we are searching for something. Neurons are always happy to call them for help, they never failed when it’s […]

Robi the Robot

The story of Robi: Maya see her mother overloaded by responsabilities. With the help of her grand-mother, she build, hiden, a robot : Robi. She wish that this machine help her mother to have more time to rest and spend more time with her. During the creation of Robi, Maya came up with a lot […]

Scientific explanation - Tale 2 Mimi and the voluntary movement

Today you can discover the new tale of Cogni’Junior : Mimi and the voluntary movement We are proposing you a review of the numeric litterature about scientific knowledge that are presented in the tale: le cerveau à tous les nveaux : This website is a gold mine. We are proposing the link to movement pathway. But […]

A dopaminergic 2015 merry christmas

For 2015 end of year, Cogni’Junior is preparing few surprises and here is the first of them. We are offering a comic from our series about neurodegenerative disease: Parkinson. During this moment of family events, perhaps you have a relative that hold this disease. How to explain to children and old children ? We are […]

Meeting Sinterklaas: a brain story

It is ‘present night’ in the Netherlands this Saturday night. Sinterklaas will bring presents to the good children. Did you behave well this year? Are you ready to meet him, and is your brain ready for this too? this blog post is originally available in the donders wonders blog here

What about you doing science ?

Original article can be found on the donders wonders blog READ ARTICLE

in uncategorized-en by Roselyne CHAUVIN 10 Jan 201609 Mar 2022 0 comments

Mimi – the comics – episode 3

Discovering the episode 3

The third episode appeared in the number 22, of march 2015.

Télécharger l’épisode 3

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OCEANA - Logbook - conference

Kids have the mic! Kids of year 7 succeeded in their challenge: to give a talk in a auditorium with 150 persons in the audience, at AgroParisTech engineering school in Paris. The topic of the talk what: how the brain work, how to optimize learning? All gathered by groups of 2 or 3, talking about […]

OCEANA - Logbook - colaboration

8 years old children, with Claire Birotat-Moncet. Week mid March 2017 by Isabelle Malet After introducing the brain to the kids in multiple sessions, we are preparing a conference. Activities that were done with the class will be presented to an audience of 200 persons. The school approved the invitation from Wax Youth that organise […]

OCEANA : program validation

Our questions: The ability to detect a state of stress, of lack of attention or of emotional overload is not inborn, you need to learn how to do it. To improve it, children first need to be able to perceive such states. The OCEANA team is interested in the ability to transfer this knowledge, i.e. […]

The team

External collaborators: CHARLOTTE CHEREL: young designer, she want to conceive product that engage users, here children, in an active use of their attention. She work today on the creation of object that would help the practice of attentive attendance in class. OCEANA program roles: Team and project management: Roselyne Kit improvement / users feedback […]

OCEANA - Logbook - visit of the lab

While on the french side, our 3 classes continue the teaching and are arriving to the end of it, our first dutch class testing the kit give the teaching a try since January. Kids seems really interested and happy of this knowledge. On the side of the OCEANA team, we are waiting for the detailed […]

OCEANA - Logbook - memory

Week January, 20th 2017 by Isabelle Malet Do I have a good memory? Oh my memory fail me … New chapter with the 8-9 years old children, but how important. Learning, is it memorizing all lessons done in the classroom? So, to begin, all children are going to experiment situation of memorizing. Memory is at […]

OCEANA - Logbook - cerebral plasticity and sessions about emotions

OCEANA - Logbook - Starting with Neuroscience

After the introduction of what is the stress, we move to how the brain works. Children arrived to the question : why do we stress? It’s time to give them some basic information about the brain to see how this can be link to the cause of stress and how we can play on stress […]

OCEANA – logbook – End of session about Stress

week 3 : frozen pictures In the OCEANA program, we are progressing slowly on the sessions about stress. After being confronted to a stressful situation : make a oral presentation, it’s time to look at video make during the week and the previous session. Will the children be able to catch stress signs ? […]

OCEANA : What is it?

OCEANA for ‘ Optimisation of Capabilities to Engage and Acquire, using neuroscientific methods’. What is the program OCEANA? The objective of this program is to raise the awareness of students via their abilities to pay attention to and learn, in order to optimize their learning process. In this medium, where schools and researchers come […]

OCEANA : Why do we teach neuroscience in class?

CURRENT SITUATION Our society evolves as fast at new technological developments do. We want our commodities to be faster and more attractive. Teachers have difficulty with the lack of attention children display in class. Schools are now faced with this question of how to improve attention and learning: the directors and teachers need to work together to […]

OCEANA : References

Discover our readings around the OCEANA program: View my Flipboard Magazine. Questionnaires: Here is a list of questionnaires used in research to study meditation and education across the literature. If you wish to use them, you should verify the usage licence, if the questionnaire is use for clinical purpose or school purpose : question can […]

OCEANA - Logbook - bonus

Novelty in the program The arrival of a 5 years old class in the program We had the pleasure to give the start to a new class, a 5 years old class from Paris. So for them, it was the stage of the initial questionnaires. A challenge for such a young participant, they have to […]

OCEANA – Logbook – Week 2

A stressful situation This second week, it’s the first activity session : the face-to-face with a stressful situation. Our two pilot class work in partnership. Students are making oral presentations (about a talent) and make movie of themselves. Videos will be sent to the other class. … So unknown students, on the other side […]

OCEANA - Logbook - Week 1

Between the 19 and the 28 f September 2016, Caroline and Isabelle (and Caire) give initial questionnaire to children to fill in. Theses questionnaire were testing the focus, empathy, or emotion perception skills of students. Rectifications Firsts needed adaptations appeared quickly: the idea to help student to answer with picture representing the Likert scale (5 choice […]

Donders Innovation Voucher

Cogni’Junior is very pleased to announce that the OCEANA program is supported by the Donders Institute, an major and international actor of the research in cognitive science. The Donders Institute The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour is a world-class research centre devoted to understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of human cognition and behavior in […]

OCEANA : education materials

Designers, teachers and researchers are coming together to create a multidisciplinary team and to engage in a “neuro-responsible” project: tools and content get scientific validation steps by creators of the program. The Teaching Kit: 3 goals 1) apprehend Most children have some concept of the brain, and what it does, but not all of this information […]

Evolution of a speaking brain

Plushes

Nous vous présentons ici les différentes peluches que nous utilisons lors de nos interventions. Pour chacune d’entre elles, vous trouverez une fiche d’activité à télécharger, suggérant les “défis” à relever par l’enfant lors de leur manipulation, et expliquant les concepts scientifiques sous-jacents. Les peluches neurones Les premières peluches a avoir été utilisées dans le cadre […]

Games

Une première série de jeux permet la fixation en mémoire des personnages et de leur rôle dans l’histoire. Ces jeux ne visent pas à apprendre des notions explicites, mais plutôt à revenir de manière ludique sur le conte. Ils peuvent donc être utilisés avec des enfants de tout âge. En voici deux exemples. […]

Brain Puzzle

Nous utilisons classiquement ce puzzle pour introduire les grandes questions sur lesquelles nous nous focaliserons lors des séances, à savoir : à quoi ressemble le cerveau ? A quoi sert-il ? Quelles sont ses différentes parties ? Le terme de “puzzle du cerveau” est en fait incorrect, car nous représentons ici l’encéphale, composé du cerveau, du cervelet […]

Neurosciences and learning

Parkinson

the stroke

Alzheimer disease

Mimi - the comics - episode 4

Mimi - the comics - episode 3

Mimi - the comics - episode 2

Mimi - the comics - episode 1

The adventure of Mimi

Mimi the microglia is the first character created by Cogni’Junior. It’s a glial cell of the immune system traveling inside the brain and discovering how it works. The tale was created in september 2013. Mimi’s adventure developped in comics, with a target, this time, older. We let you discover the adventure and hope that you […]

Mimi and the voluntary movement

Adventures of Mimi : Fronti, a neuron of the frontal cortex, is surprised that the order of movement that him and his colleagues sent to other neurons isn’t follow by confirmation of execution. He is a bit concerned. In the neighborhood, our friend Mimi the microglia decide to help to find where the movement order […]

Mimi in the land of place cells

Mimi in the land of place cells Mimi, out little microglia, immune cell of the brain, will have new adventures. She is surprised that detailed information come from neurons of a brain region, the hippocampus, when we are searching for something. Neurons are always happy to call them for help, they never failed when it’s […]

Robi the Robot

The story of Robi: Maya see her mother overloaded by responsabilities. With the help of her grand-mother, she build, hiden, a robot : Robi. She wish that this machine help her mother to have more time to rest and spend more time with her. During the creation of Robi, Maya came up with a lot […]

Scientific explanation - Tale 2 Mimi and the voluntary movement

Today you can discover the new tale of Cogni’Junior : Mimi and the voluntary movement We are proposing you a review of the numeric litterature about scientific knowledge that are presented in the tale: le cerveau à tous les nveaux : This website is a gold mine. We are proposing the link to movement pathway. But […]

A dopaminergic 2015 merry christmas

For 2015 end of year, Cogni’Junior is preparing few surprises and here is the first of them. We are offering a comic from our series about neurodegenerative disease: Parkinson. During this moment of family events, perhaps you have a relative that hold this disease. How to explain to children and old children ? We are […]

Meeting Sinterklaas: a brain story

It is ‘present night’ in the Netherlands this Saturday night. Sinterklaas will bring presents to the good children. Did you behave well this year? Are you ready to meet him, and is your brain ready for this too? this blog post is originally available in the donders wonders blog here

What about you doing science ?

Original article can be found on the donders wonders blog READ ARTICLE

in uncategorized-en by Roselyne CHAUVIN 10 Jan 201609 Mar 2022 0 comments

OCEANA – Logbook – conference
by Roselyne CHAUVIN
21 May 2017
Kids have the mic! Kids of year 7 succeeded in their challenge: to give a talk in a auditorium with 150 persons in the audience, at AgroParisTech engineering school in… Read more: OCEANA – Logbook – conference
OCEANA – Logbook – colaboration
by Roselyne CHAUVIN
29 March 2017
8 years old children, with Claire Birotat-Moncet. Week mid March 2017 by Isabelle Malet After introducing the brain to the kids in multiple sessions, we are preparing a conference. Activities… Read more: OCEANA – Logbook – colaboration
OCEANA : program validation
by Roselyne CHAUVIN
25 February 2017
Our questions: The ability to detect a state of stress, of lack of attention or of emotional overload is not inborn, you need to learn how to do it. To… Read more: OCEANA : program validation