Social & Cognitive Neuroscience
Leveraging virtual, augmented, and mixed realities alongside artificial intelligence, while innovatively enhancing clinical and everyday practices
Publications
Maddalon, L., Altozano, A., Minissi, M. E., Marín-Morales, J., Romero, G. L., Parsons, T., ... & Alcañiz, M. (2026). Adaptive VR intervention on social-cognitive skills in children with ASD: a feasibility study.. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology,, 26.
Maddalon, L., Altozano, A., Minissi, M. E., Lovaton Romero, G., Gámez Martínez, S., Marín-Morales, J., ... & Alcañiz, M. (2026). Behavioral and kinematic outcomes of adaptive pauses in VR social cognition training for autistic children.. Frontiers in psychology, 17.
Domingo-Ajenjo, J., Palacios-Ibañez, A., Altozano, A., Minissi, M. E., Contero, M., Alcañiz, M., & Marín-Morales, J. (2026). Exploring Spontaneous Emotion Recognition from Face Tracking in Head-Mounted Displays.. .
Marín-Morales, J., Altozano, A., Mura, F., Gómez-Zaragozá, L., Minissi, M. E., & Raya, M. A. (2026). Biosignal-based screening of depressive symptoms during affective conversations with virtual humans.. Digital Medicine.
Marín-Morales, J., Altozano, A., Mura, F., Gómez-Zaragozá, L., & Minissi, M. E. (2026). Emotion Recognition in Conversations With Virtual Humans: Physiological Evidence From Healthy and Depressive-Symptom Cohorts.. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing..
Altozano, A., Minissi, M. E., Gómez-Zaragozá, L., Maddalon, L., Alcañiz, M., & Marín-Morales, J. (2025). Enhancing psychological assessments with open-ended questionnaires and large language models: An ASD case study.. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics..
Gómez-Zaragozá, L., Altozano, A., Llanes-Jurado, J., Minissi, M. E., Raya, M. A., & Marín-Morales, J. (2025). Detecting depression through speech and text from casual talks with fully automated virtual humans.. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 103305.
Minissi, M. E., Garcia, C., Trillo, A., & Alcañiz, M. (2025). The Role of Social and Neural Synchrony in Enhancing Learning and Collaboration in VR Serious Games: A Two-Study Protocol.. International Conference on Extended Reality, pp. 465-474.
Altozano, A., Belles, J. R., Minissi, M. E., Raya, M. A., & Marín-Morales, J. (2025). Embodied Conversational Virtual Humans in 3D Environments: Towards Scalable and Immersive AI Interactions.. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE), pp. 645-650.
Sergio C. Torres, Desirée I. Gracia Laso, Maria Eleonora Minissi, Luna Maddalon, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli y Mariano Alcañiz (2024). Social Signal Processing in Affective Virtual Reality: Human Shaped Agents Increase Electro Dermal Activity in an Elicited Negative Environment. Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, 27.
Sergio C. Torres, Desirée I. Gracia Laso, Maria Eleonora Minissi, Luna Maddalon, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli y Mariano Alcañiz (2024). Social Signal Processing in Affective Virtual Reality: Human-Shaped Agents Increase Electrodermal Activity in an Elicited Negative Environment. Cyberpsychology Behavior and social networking, 27.
Asier Adriasola, Sergio C. Torres, Yolanda Cañada, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, Ana García-Blanco, Pilar Sierra, María López-Cerveró, Blanes Rodríguez Chloe, Pablo Navalón and Alcañiz Raya Mariano (2024). Assessing Executive Functioning in Schizophrenia: Concurrent and Discriminative Validity of a Novel Virtual Cooking Task. Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, 27.
Yolanda Cañada, Sergio C. Torres, Julia Andreu-Martinez, Diana Beltrán Cristancho, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, Ana Garcia-Blanco, Asier Adriasola, Pablo Navalón, Pilar Sierra, Mariano Alcañiz (2024). Characterization and assessment of executive functions through a virtual cooking task in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 179, pp. 349-358.
Luna Maddalon, Maria Eleonora Minissi, Thomas Parsons, Amaia Hervas, Mariano Alcañiz (2024). Exploring Adaptive Virtual Reality Systems Used in Interventions for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Systematic Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 26.
Mariano Alcañiz, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, Lucia A. Carrasco‑Ribelles, Maria Eleonora Minissi, Cristina Gil López & Gün R. Semin (2023). How priming with body odors affects decision speeds in consumer behavior.. Scientific Reports, 13, pp. 1-9.
Maria Eleonora Minissi, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, Fabrizia Mantovani, Mariano Alcañiz (2021). Assessment of the autism spectrum disorder based on machine learning and social visual attention: a systematic review. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, Lucia Amalia Carrasco, Javier Marin Morales,Maria Eleonora Minissi, Elena Parra, Mariano Alcañiz Raya (2021). A virtual serious game for the behavioral assessment of psychological constructs related to basic needs. . .
Alcañiz Raya, M., Marín-Morales, J., Minissi, M. E., Teruel Garcia, G., Abad, L., & Chicchi Giglioli, I. A. (2020). Machine Learning and Virtual Reality on Body Movements’ Behaviors to Classify Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 9.
Maddalon, L., Altozano, A., Minissi, M. E., Lovaton Romero, G., Gámez Martínez, S., Marín-Morales, J., ... & Alcañiz, M. (2026). Behavioral and kinematic outcomes of adaptive pauses in VR social cognition training for autistic children.. Frontiers in psychology, 17.
Domingo-Ajenjo, J., Palacios-Ibañez, A., Altozano, A., Minissi, M. E., Contero, M., Alcañiz, M., & Marín-Morales, J. (2026). Exploring Spontaneous Emotion Recognition from Face Tracking in Head-Mounted Displays.. .
Marín-Morales, J., Altozano, A., Mura, F., Gómez-Zaragozá, L., Minissi, M. E., & Raya, M. A. (2026). Biosignal-based screening of depressive symptoms during affective conversations with virtual humans.. Digital Medicine.
Marín-Morales, J., Altozano, A., Mura, F., Gómez-Zaragozá, L., & Minissi, M. E. (2026). Emotion Recognition in Conversations With Virtual Humans: Physiological Evidence From Healthy and Depressive-Symptom Cohorts.. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing..
2025
Minissi, ME. (2025). Development of Cognitive and Emotional Biomarkers Using Biosignals Processing and Virtual Environments: Application to Clinical Psychology and Neurodevelopmental Disorders [Tesis doctoral].. Universitat Politècnica de València.Altozano, A., Minissi, M. E., Gómez-Zaragozá, L., Maddalon, L., Alcañiz, M., & Marín-Morales, J. (2025). Enhancing psychological assessments with open-ended questionnaires and large language models: An ASD case study.. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics..
Gómez-Zaragozá, L., Altozano, A., Llanes-Jurado, J., Minissi, M. E., Raya, M. A., & Marín-Morales, J. (2025). Detecting depression through speech and text from casual talks with fully automated virtual humans.. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 103305.
Minissi, M. E., Garcia, C., Trillo, A., & Alcañiz, M. (2025). The Role of Social and Neural Synchrony in Enhancing Learning and Collaboration in VR Serious Games: A Two-Study Protocol.. International Conference on Extended Reality, pp. 465-474.
Altozano, A., Belles, J. R., Minissi, M. E., Raya, M. A., & Marín-Morales, J. (2025). Embodied Conversational Virtual Humans in 3D Environments: Towards Scalable and Immersive AI Interactions.. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE), pp. 645-650.
2024
Maria Eleonora Minissi, Alberto Altozano, Javier Marin-Morales, Alice Chicchi Giglioli, Fabrizia Mantovani, Mariano Alcañiz (2024). Biosignal comparison for autism assessment using machine learning models and virtual reality. Computers in Biology and Medicine.Sergio C. Torres, Desirée I. Gracia Laso, Maria Eleonora Minissi, Luna Maddalon, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli y Mariano Alcañiz (2024). Social Signal Processing in Affective Virtual Reality: Human Shaped Agents Increase Electro Dermal Activity in an Elicited Negative Environment. Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, 27.
Sergio C. Torres, Desirée I. Gracia Laso, Maria Eleonora Minissi, Luna Maddalon, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli y Mariano Alcañiz (2024). Social Signal Processing in Affective Virtual Reality: Human-Shaped Agents Increase Electrodermal Activity in an Elicited Negative Environment. Cyberpsychology Behavior and social networking, 27.
Asier Adriasola, Sergio C. Torres, Yolanda Cañada, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, Ana García-Blanco, Pilar Sierra, María López-Cerveró, Blanes Rodríguez Chloe, Pablo Navalón and Alcañiz Raya Mariano (2024). Assessing Executive Functioning in Schizophrenia: Concurrent and Discriminative Validity of a Novel Virtual Cooking Task. Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, 27.
Yolanda Cañada, Sergio C. Torres, Julia Andreu-Martinez, Diana Beltrán Cristancho, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, Ana Garcia-Blanco, Asier Adriasola, Pablo Navalón, Pilar Sierra, Mariano Alcañiz (2024). Characterization and assessment of executive functions through a virtual cooking task in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 179, pp. 349-358.
Luna Maddalon, Maria Eleonora Minissi, Thomas Parsons, Amaia Hervas, Mariano Alcañiz (2024). Exploring Adaptive Virtual Reality Systems Used in Interventions for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Systematic Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 26.
2023
Maria Eleonora Minissi, Lucía Gómez-Zaragozá, Javier Marín-Morales, Fabrizia Mantovani, Marian Sirera, Luis Abad, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Soledad Gómez-García, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli and Mariano Alcañiz1 (2023). The whole-body motor skills of children with autism spectrum disorder taking goal-directed actions in virtual reality. Frontiers in psychology, 14.Mariano Alcañiz, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, Lucia A. Carrasco‑Ribelles, Maria Eleonora Minissi, Cristina Gil López & Gün R. Semin (2023). How priming with body odors affects decision speeds in consumer behavior.. Scientific Reports, 13, pp. 1-9.
2022
Sergio Cervera-Torres, Francisco José Núñez-Benjumea, Antonio de Arriba Muñoz, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, Luis Fernández-Luque (2022). Digital Health for Emotional and Self-Management Support of Caregivers of Children receiving Growth Hormone Treatment: A Feasibility Study Protocol. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.2021
Minissi, M. E., Giglioli, I. A. C., Mantovani, F., & Raya, M. A. (2021). Assessment of the Autism Spectrum Disorder Based on Machine Learning and Social Visual Attention: A Systematic Review. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, pp. 1-16.Maria Eleonora Minissi, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, Fabrizia Mantovani, Mariano Alcañiz (2021). Assessment of the autism spectrum disorder based on machine learning and social visual attention: a systematic review. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, Lucia Amalia Carrasco, Javier Marin Morales,Maria Eleonora Minissi, Elena Parra, Mariano Alcañiz Raya (2021). A virtual serious game for the behavioral assessment of psychological constructs related to basic needs. . .
2020
Alcañiz, M., Chicchi Giglioli, I. A., Marín-Morales, J., Higuera Trujillo, J. L., Olmos, E., Menissi, M. E., ... & Abad, L. (2020). Application of supervised machine learning for behavioral biomarkers of autism spectrum disorder based on electro dermal activity and virtual reality. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14.Alcañiz Raya, M., Marín-Morales, J., Minissi, M. E., Teruel Garcia, G., Abad, L., & Chicchi Giglioli, I. A. (2020). Machine Learning and Virtual Reality on Body Movements’ Behaviors to Classify Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 9.