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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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OCEANA - Logbook - cerebral plasticity and sessions about emotions

 

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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 […]

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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 ?   […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Evolution of a speaking brain

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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 […]

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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.     […]

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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 […]

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Neurosciences and learning

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Parkinson

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the stroke

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Alzheimer disease

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Mimi - the comics - episode 4

   

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Mimi - the comics - episode 3

 

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Mimi - the comics - episode 2

 

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Mimi - the comics - episode 1

 

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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

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What about you doing science ?

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