Awards


Best Clinical Poster Award - 9th EHDN Plenary Meeting 2016
Award for the best poster in the clinical field of the 9th European Huntington’s Disease Network Plenary Meeting.
Filipa Júlio, Alexandre Malhão, Fábio Pedrosa, Hélio Gonçalves, Marco Simões, Mário R Simões, Marieke van Asselen, Miguel Castelo-Branco and Cristina Januário

BCI Award Nomineee
Finalist of the award for brain-computer interface research with the work Carlos Amaral, João Andrade, Marco Simões, Susana Mouga,
Bruno Direito, Miguel Castelo-Branco - A P300-based brain-computer interface for social attention rehabilitation in autism.


Best Student Poster Award (Honourable Mention) - ICVR 2015
Honourable mention for the second best short paper resulting from the work of a student, at the conference ICVR 2015.
Miguel Bernardes, Fernando Barros, Marco Simões, Miguel Castelo-Branco




Scientific Publications

Journal Articles


A novel biomarker of compensatory recruitment of face emotional imagery networks in autism spectrum disorder.
Simões, M., Monteiro, R., Andrade, J., Mouga, S., França, F., Oliveira, G., … Castelo-Branco, M.
2018 Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12(NOV), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.00791


Virtual Travel Training for Autism Spectrum Disorder: Proof-of-Concept Interventional Study.
Simões, M., Bernardes, M., Barros, F., & Castelo-Branco, M.
2018 JMIR Serious Games, 6(1), e5. https://doi.org/10.2196/games.8428


Processing of facial expressions in autism: a systematic review of EEG/ERP evidence
Raquel Monteiro, Marco Simões, João Andrade and Miguel Castelo-Branco
2017 Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 4(4), 255–276. 2017 doi: 10.1007/s40489-017-0112-6s


A novel Brain Computer Interface for classification of social joint attention in Autism and comparison of 3 experimental setups: a feasibility study
Carlos Amaral, Marco Simões, João Andrade and Miguel Castelo-Branco
2018 Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 290, 105-115. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2017.07.029.


Separability of motor imagery of the self from interpretation of motor intentions of others at the single trial level: an EEG study
João Andrade, José Cecílio, Marco Simões, Francisco Sales, and Miguel Castelo-Branco
2017 In J Neuroeng Rehabil.14: 63. doi: 10.1186/s12984-017-0276-4


Neural Signals Evoked by Stimuli of Increasing Social Scene Complexity Are Detectable at the Single-Trial Level and Right Lateralized
Carlos Amaral, Marco Simões, Miguel Castelo-Branco
2015 In PLoS ONE 10(3): e0121970. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121970


Articles in Conference Proceedings


A serious game with virtual reality for travel training with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Miguel Bernardes, Fernando Barros, Marco Simões, Miguel Castelo-Branco
In 2015 International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR).


Neurohab: A Platform for Virtual Training of Daily Living Skills in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Simões, M., Mouga, S., Pedrosa, F., Carvalho, P., Oliveira, G., Castelo-Branco, M.,
In HCIST 2014 - International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies, Procedia Technology, 16, 1417–1423. doi:10.1016/j.protcy.2014.10.161


Specific EEG/ERP Responses to Dynamic Facial Expressions in Virtual Reality Environments
Marco Simões, Carlos Amaral, Paulo Carvalho, Miguel Castelo-Branco,
In Y.-T. Zhang (Ed.), The International Conference on Health Informatics, IFMBE Proceedings (Vol. 42, pp. 331–334). Vilamoura: Springer International Publishing, 2013. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-03005-0


Virtual reality and brain-computer interface for joint-attention training in autism.
M Simões, P Carvalho, M Castelo-Branco,
In Proc. 9th Intl Conf. on Disability, Virtual Reality and Assoc. Technologies, P M Sharkey, E Klinger (Eds), pp. 507-510, Laval, France, 10 - 12 Sept. 2012.
Best Student Short Paper Award (Runner Up).


Posters


Development and Validation of a Virtual Reality Intervention for Adaptive Outdoor Activities in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Miguel Castelo-Branco, Marco Simões, Guiomar Oliveira, Fernando Barros and Miguel Bernardes
In IMFAR - International Meeting for Autism Research, San Francisco, 2017


Everyday executive function in huntington’s disease: early deficits assessed by a virtual reality task
Filipa Júlio, Alexandre Malhão, Fábio Pedrosa, Hélio Gonçalves, Marco Simões, Mário R Simões, Marieke van Asselen, Miguel Castelo-Branco and Cristina Januário
In EHDN2016 - 9th European Huntington’s Disease Network Plenary Meeting, Haia, 2016


Comparing different ‘friendly’ EEG systems for a P300-based brain-computer interface for rehabilitation in autism
Carlos Amaral, Marco Simões, João Andrade, Miguel Castelo-Branco
InAnnual Conference on Clinical Neurophysiology and NeuroImaging 2015 - Joint Meeting of ECNS, ISNIP and ISBET, Munich, 2015


Can virtual reality be used for behavioral analysis in autism spectrum disorder? A simulation for interpersonal distance preference assessment
Marco Simões, Susana Mouga, Andreia Pereira, Paulo Carvalho, Guiomar Oliveira, Miguel Castelo-Branco
In IMFAR - International Meeting for Autism Research, Salt Lake City, 2015