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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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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. […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

OCEANA - Logbook - cerebral plasticity and sessions about emotions

 

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 ?   […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

Evolution of a speaking brain

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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.     […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

Neurosciences and learning

Read More

Parkinson

Read More

the stroke

Read More

Alzheimer disease

Read More

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

 

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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

Read More

What about you doing science ?

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

Read More

Mimi – the comics – episode 3

 

Discovering the episode 3


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

 

 

Télécharger l’épisode 3

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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. […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

OCEANA - Logbook - cerebral plasticity and sessions about emotions

 

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 ?   […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

Evolution of a speaking brain

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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.     […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

Neurosciences and learning

Read More

Parkinson

Read More

the stroke

Read More

Alzheimer disease

Read More

Mimi - the comics - episode 4

   

Read More

Mimi - the comics - episode 3

 

Read More

Mimi - the comics - episode 2

 

Read More

Mimi - the comics - episode 1

 

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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

Read More

What about you doing science ?

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

Read More

Mimi – the comics – episode 2

 

Discovering the episode 2


The second episode appeared in the number 21 of february 2015.
 

 

 

Télécharger l’épisode 2

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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. […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

OCEANA - Logbook - cerebral plasticity and sessions about emotions

 

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 ?   […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

Evolution of a speaking brain

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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.     […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

Neurosciences and learning

Read More

Parkinson

Read More

the stroke

Read More

Alzheimer disease

Read More

Mimi - the comics - episode 4

   

Read More

Mimi - the comics - episode 3

 

Read More

Mimi - the comics - episode 2

 

Read More

Mimi - the comics - episode 1

 

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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

Read More

What about you doing science ?

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

Read More

Mimi – the comics – episode 1

 


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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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. […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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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The adventure of Mimi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Mimi, la microglie

 

 

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Mimi, the microglia

 

 

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Notre démarche

Around the tale

 

About Mimi

Mimi is a glial cell of the brain, and more accurately it’s a microglia. She have to care about Louis a neuron, with the help of Astride, an astrocyte. Mimi is tired of her work and, one day, she decide to leave to search for the chef to talk with him about her need of holidays.

 

Lead from neuron to neuron following message that they receive, Mimi is living an amazing adventure. She assists to the birth of a neuron, heal another, attached by microbes, see some fireworks when neurons communicate and discover cells that she didn’t know about …

 

But, is she going to find this famous chef od the brain?

 

 

Scientific knowledge 

This story aim to illustrate some global notion of anatomy and physiology of the brain. Particularly, we are talking about:

  • Global shape of neurones (with a soma, an axon and dendrites)
  • Connection between neurons, and their networks
  • Adult neurogenesis
  • Transmission of the neural information: thanks to action potentials (electric) and neurotransmitters (chemical)
  • Myelin sheath and oligodendrocytes that play a role in its creation
  • Microglia, cells of the immune system of the brain
  • Astrocytes, with a role in nutrition and partipating to the creation and functioning of synapsis

 

Go to references for more information.

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 will like it!


L'équipe CogniJunior

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Mimi and the voluntary movement

 

 

 


Discovering the tale

Mimi and the voluntary movement

 

 

Mimi explore the brain in a new adventure about the movement and its execution.

 

 

 

The team of CogniJunior

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This story was written in the light of the interaction with Jennifer C. holding a disease called “cerebral motor infirmity” and wanting popularize her disease. We decided to give a full explanation of the motor system in a tale and to popularize about the disease on another support.

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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 is blocked: she is going to follow the message to understand where the problem come from. She bring along with her in the journey another microglia, Boulie, pretty proud to “fear nothing”, but the journey will give hard time to this conception of herself.
 
From neurons who decide of movement in the brain to moto-neurons who manage the muscle directly, passing by all neurons that play a role in the creation of the action, Mimi is doing a exceptional trip fro mthe brain to the spinal cord. Along the adventure, she understand the importance of confirming order that are executed or not (via what we call “retro action loop” or feedback), and will discover the possibility of bypass in the brain, when a reflex happens.


Scientific knowledge :

 This story needs to be considered at a follow up of the first tale the adventures of Mimi (which present the basis to understand the functioning of the brain) aims to illustrate global notions of anatomis and physiologie o the nervous system related to movement, and to talk about pathology of movement. These pathology tend to induice misunderstanding and prejudices about disable people. We can sometimes think that they are cognitively disable but it’s not obligatory the case. Ths story is born after the proposition of Jennifer, that have cerebral motor infirmity, she contacted us because she wanted to popularize her disease.

For this aim, we present:

  • the different cerebral areas, neurons involved when we decide to do a movement and they different role
  • the moment when they are involved in the chain of action
  • the place where they are in the body (in the brain but also in the spinal cord for other).
  • the diference between involuntary movement, dignified in the brain and sent to concerned muscle, and a movement reflex.
  • the retro action loop and the importance of verifying constantly the nervous message send from top to bottom.
  • Different pathology of movement (for example the erebro motor infirmity), cause and consequences.

Références scientifiques :

Mimi in the land of place cells

Discovering the tale

Mimi in the land of place cells

 

 

Mimi explore the function of spatial localisation by visiting neurons that have a very specific work: in the brain, every one have his specialty.

 

 

The team of CogniJunior

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Our next tale is under construction and will be called 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 about situating thing in the environment. Mimi is really curious to know how they are organized to work so efficiently. In comparison, where Mimi is working at the moment, the parietal cortex, where we manage attention to a direction or another, neurons receive information from everywhere and are obliged to eliminate some of them, choosing most important ones but sometime not choosing very wisely.

It’s time to take some holidays and Mimi know exactly where to go: the hippocampus and theses special cells that are called place cells. It’s them that enable us to oriented in space. Mimi arrived at the moment of a “research time”: apparently, we lose something and we have to find it back. The idea is to look everywhere, where we come from. Mimi helps the microglia there in the mean time discovering the functioning very specific and hierarchic of theses neurons : place cells.

There, she met a neuron that don’t see himself as very useful next to his colleagues, but is he right ? As for mimi, she is going to review her knowledge about the brain, did the brain do mistake everywhere sometimes?

 

Scientific knowledge:

  • inattentional blindness, when we don’t see something because we are not focusing on it
  • the functioning of spatial localisation and cell population involved and well known: place cells and grid cells
  • the hippocampus
  • the discovery of another reality of the brain: do mistakes are necessary?
  • nocturnes activity evocation