Physics of Life Reviews

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	231
From pre-stimulus activity to the contents of consciousness – A spatiotemporal view: Reply to comments on “Beyond task response-Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness”	116
Towards the utilization of LLMs for misinformation modeling and detection	103
Rotating waves and multistability in locomotion models	94
Particular flows and attracting sets	92
Social timing: More than combinatorial probabilities?	75
Coordinating actions as active agents in a dynamic musical environment: Comment on “Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability” by Tal-Chen Rabinowitch	67
Going deeper into the feelings in creative metacognition: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	62
Putting the framework to work: Comment on “a systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Lebuda & Benedek	61
Language as a means to reduce uncertainty	59
A look forward to further developments: Building bridges between mathematics and economics in a multiscale fashion	55
From physics to sentience: Deciphering the semantics of the free-energy principle and evaluating its claims	52
Mind-body transactions as informational operators: Comment on “Informational embodiment: Computational role of information structure in codes and robots” by A. Pitti, M. Austin, K. Nakajima, and Y. Ku	43
Brain paradox – Timescales matter! Comment on “The paradox of the self-studying brain” by S.Battaglia, P. Servajean & K. Friston	42
Exploring the potential of kinematic coding in sports science: Implications for athletic action anticipation: Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Cristina	40
Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods	38
Photobiomodulation effects on cancer cells through modifications of their bioelectric properties	32
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Another brick in the wall? Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	29
Mathematical oncology: A new frontier in cancer biology and clinical decision making	29
“Homo informatio”	28
Mathematical models for dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systematic review	28
Patterns of neuronal synchrony in higher-order networks	28
Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems	27

Commentary on “ ‘Snakes and ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago”	27
The spontaneous brain activity as a possible common ground between different theoretical frameworks. Comment on “Beyond task response—Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness” by G. N	24
To comment or not to comment, that is the question!	23
The structure of biological complexity: Comment on “Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems” by Gosak et al.	22
Neuromuscular invariants in action execution and perception	21
From local match/mismatch signals to updating of task-relevant beliefs: The temporo-parietal junction and its embedment in cortical networks	20
The vigor law as a kinematic invariant at work in perceptual-cognitive processes	20
Editorial Board	18
Multiscale and multi-physical problems	18
A systematic framework of creative metacognition	18
Integrating large language models and active inference to understand eye movements in reading and dyslexia	18
What are the psychic forces present within a psychopathological state? Comment on “Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psychotherapy” by Pietro Sara	17
The devil is in the method details. Comment on ‘Visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture’ by Spagna et al.	17
Surfing brain waves without sinking	16
Time in peripersonal space. Comment on "computational models of peripersonal space representation" by Tommaso Bertoni, Ishan-Singh J. Chauhan, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino	16
Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour	15
The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception	15
Impacts of climate change on vegetation pattern: Mathematical modeling and data analysis	14
Beyond task-based connectivity in fMRI: Reply to comments on “Connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI” by Shenyang Huang, Felipe De Brigard, Roberto Cabeza, Simon W. Davis	13
The role mathematics can play in physics of life	12
When patterns come to life	12
A system sciences approach to consonance/dissonance: From biological constraints to cultural differences	11
The second law of thermodynamics, life and Earth‘s planetary machinery revisited	10
Transversal aromaticity: Tryptophan as a bridge between molecular patterns and consciousness explained	10
Physics-based character animation and human motor control	10
A natural experiment to understand genetic influences on brain structures. Comment on “Heritability of white matter in twins: A diffusion neuroimaging review” by Giovanni Videtta, Chiara Colli, Letizi	10
Adding a mental health perspective on social timing	10
Social timing as an active, multisensory, and embodied process. A commentary on “The evolution of social timing” by Verga, Kotz and Ravignani	9
Affect and human functioning: Comment on the affective grounds of the mind: The Affective Pertinientization (APER) model by S. Salvatore, A. Palmieri, R. De Luca Picione, V. Bochnicchio, M. Reho, M. R	9
Is sharing always caring? Entropy, boundaries and the plurality of psychotherapeutic process: Comment on “Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psycho	9
GLMY Homology Theory Meets idopNetwork: Dissecting Soil Microbiota Resilience Under Forest Thinning and Climate Change: Comment on “Topological change of soil microbiota networks for forest resilience	9
Determinism of formamide-based biogenic prebiotic reactions	8
The too many facets of motor output variability. Comment on “From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability” by Casartelli, L., Maronati, C., &	8
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Bridging nonlinear dynamics and physiology: Implications for CPGs and biomimetic robotics. Reply to comments on “Control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimming ro	8
A contribution to understanding the application of Pulsed Electric Fields in liquid food processing	7
Visual context drives uncertainty-reduction and novelty-seeking exploration during action understanding	7
Beyond valence: A predictive coding framework for major–minor mode perception and its therapeutic implications: Comment on “The major–minor mode dichotomy in music perception” by Carraturo et al.	7
From multi-scale to non-local models	7
How many more uses of bricks can we generate? How knowledge is somewhat neglected in a model full of knowledge	7
Control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimming robots	7
Preliminaries to artificial consciousness: A multidimensional heuristic approach	7
From a mathematical science of living systems to biology and economics	7
Addressing misconceptions on Latent Solution tests	7
From Parrondo's paradox to collective intelligence	7
Distinguishing nature and nurture in understanding the sadness of the minor mode: Comment on “The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception” by Giulio Carraturo, Victor Pando-Naude, Marco Costa,	6
A brigde toward mathematics theory in living systems: the thermostatted kinetic theory method for crowd dynamics	6
Motor invariants in action execution and perception	6
Why Paleolithic Rockstars were both enigmatic and sporadic: A comment on: ‘Snakes and Ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago	6
From static catalogs to dynamic regulation: Comment on “Unlocking the brain's code: The crucial role of post-translational modifications in neurodevelopment and neurological function” by Peng Ye et al	6

Comment on “Physics-based character animation and human motor control” by J. Llobera & C. Charbonnier	6
Computational models of peripersonal space representation	6
The hare and the honey: Health care as transformative learning	5
Particularly average	5
The fine-grained temporal dynamics of social timing: a window into sociality of embodied social agents. Comment on “The evolution of social timing” by L. Verga, S. A. Kotz, & A. Ravignani	5
Focusing on relevant data and correcting misconceptions reaffirms the ape ZLS	5
Can major breakthroughs in cancer be achieved through theoretical models?	5
Knowledge clustering and the acquisition of creative expertise	5
Species extinction in different time scales	5
Creative metacognition and its relation to the conceptualization, assessment, and nurture of creativity: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	5
Possible contribution to data-driven primate research: Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Becchio, Pullar, Scaliti, and Panzeri	4
Breaking Archaeology's glass ceiling in technological innovation. Comment on “Snakes and ladders in Paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago” by H.M. Manrique, K.	4
Perception and response of skeleton to mechanical stress	4
Persons and their affective experiences. Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The affective pertinentization (APER) model” by salvatore et al.	4
Bioelectrics for healthy and food-secure lives: Reply to comments on “Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods”	4
Heritability of white matter in twins: A diffusion neuroimaging review	4
Leveraging large language models for complex systems analysis: Opportunities, challenges, and future directions: Comment on “LLMs and generative agent-based models for complex systems research” by Y.	4
Potential of electric field in liquid foods processing Comment on “Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods” by F. Zare, N. Ghasemi, N. Bansal & H. Hosano	4
A meta-perspective on the creative metacognition framework. Reply to comments on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition”	4
Comment on “Viscoelastic mechanics of living cells” by Hui Zhou, Ruye Liu, Yizhou Xu, Jierui Fan, Xinyue Liu, Longquan Chen, Qiang Wei	4
High-order interaction modeling of tumor-microenvironment crosstalk for tumor growth	4
Languages are Cultural Artifacts and Align with Cultural Evolution: Comment on “Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution” by Balthasar Bickel, Anne-Lise Giraud, Klaus Zuberbühler, C	3
Balancing objects and processes: advocating pluralism in biology: Comment on “Thoughts and thinkers: On the complementarity between objects and processes" by Chris Fields and Michael Levin	3
Yes, And	3
Prognostic potential of reading art in brain damage and the possible contribution of non-invasive brain stimulation	3
Aromatic patterns: Tryptophan aromaticity as a catalyst for the emergence of life and rise of consciousness	3
Ant colony optimization: A bibliometric review	3
Revolutionizing dynamic microbiome network analysis via idopNetworks: Comment on “Topological change of soil microbiota networks for forest resilience under global warming” by Gong et al.	3
Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution	3
The music we march to: Beyond beat, floating intentionality and improvisation	3
Neural decoding reliability: Breakthroughs and potential of brain–computer interfaces technologies in the treatment of neurological diseases	3
Beyond simple laboratory studies, toward interactive methods	3
From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability	3
Listening to dissonant and atonal music induces psychological tension and anxiety	3
The circuit of cognition: Operational closure and the interpenetration of views. Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The affective pertinentization (APER) model” by Salvatore et al.	3
Multiple applications of pulsed electric fields are game changer in food industry and biomedicine	3
Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation	3
Non-invariants may be used for socially-relevant perceptual decisions	3
Consonance and dissonance perception. A critical review of the historical sources, multidisciplinary findings, and main hypotheses	3
Building bidirectional, signed, and weighted interaction network among microbes	3
More than one effect in every affect	3
I gotta feeling: Beyond major and minor dichotomy in music emotions. Comment on “The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception” by Giulio Carraturo, Victor Pando-Naude, Marco Costa, Peter Vuust,	3
The importance of tradeoffs in neural and motor variability	2
A new approach to quantify information in real-life, complex neuroscience processes. Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behavior” by Becchio, Pullar, Scaliti and Panze	2
Physical reasoning is the missing link between action goals and kinematics	2
Simulating social dynamics with artificial intelligence	2
Multilayer coupled mechanism	2
Measures, constructs, and constructing measurement: Reply to comments on “Can we really ‘read’ art to see the changing brain?”	2
Information, computation, and causality in living systems	2
Language is a unique form of communication that transformed human evolution but how unique is linguistic evolution?: Comment on “Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution” by B. Bick	2
Weighting and integrating heterogeneous behavioral cues comment on ‘kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour’	2
Goldstein's ‘catastrophic reactions’ reinterpreted as neuroaesthetic ‘signatures’	2
What scholarship on social timing and autism can learn from each other: A Comment on “The evolution of social timing” by Laura Verga, Sonja A. Kotz, and Andrea Ravignani	2
Creative cures or wishful thinking? The case for rigor in arts-based interventions: Comment on “Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique” by Martin Skov an	2
The path forward for modeling action-oriented cognition as active inference	2
Implications of cell's electrical properties for standard of care in glioblastoma therapy	2
Reaction-diffusion waves in biology: new trends, recent developments	2
Cultural evolution in the science of culture and cultural evolution	2
Cancer modelling as fertile ground for new mathematical challenges	2
The riddle of TPJ function in language processing	2
At the crossroad of the search for spontaneous radiation and the Orch OR consciousness theory	2
Untenable propositions and alternative avenues.	2
No sound evidence supports the notion that we can “read” art	2
The emotional connotations of major and minor: The role of harmonicity and pitch height: Comment on “The Major-Minor Mode Dichotomy in Music Perception” by Carraturo et al	2
Editorial Board	2
Against a “Lego perspective” on art and health interventions: comment on “Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique” by Martin Skov & Marcos Nadal	2
Motor variability in task-space and body-space	2
Inner speech is not a simulation of language but an act of speaking: Comment on “The Sound of Thought: Form Matters – The Prosody of Inner Speech” by Hamutal Kreiner, Zohar Eviatar	2
WITHDRAWN: Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	2
Homo erectus’ slowly broadening Zone of Bounded Surprisals opened the way to technological culture	2
Living on the edge – practical information geometry for studying the emergence and propagation of life forms	2
Snakes and ladders in the evolution of language	2
Quantifying tightness - Looseness of interactions with dynamical systems methods. A Comment on “Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability” by T. C. Rabinowitch	2
Connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI	2
Why predicting secreted effectors and what they do is important	2
All quantum systems are strange	2
Can a mathematical model of mass extinctions do without environmental noise?	2
Can we “read” art…at all? A psychometric perspective on the possibility of measuring artwork attributes	2
Spatial pattern formation, community assembly and resilience	2
The complexity of oscillation phase: Comment on “Entrainment by transcranial alternating current stimulation: Insight from models of cortical oscillations and dynamical systems theory” by M. Madadi As	2

Electrical properties of cancer cells: A next generation biophysical therapeutic target	2
Beyond stimulus-centric, dualist and modular theories of cognitive control: fact or fiction? Comment on “Active inference and cognitive control: Balancing deliberation and habits through precision opt	2
Less is more: Strangeness affords flexibility – A commentary on “Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things” by Friston, Da Costa, Sakthivadivel, Heins, Pavliotis, Ramstead, and Parr	2
Beyond task response - A key to the subjective aspects of consciousness	2
Matches, mismatches, and the experience of supernumerary body parts	2
Towards a better understanding of structural-functional relationships in the forest soil microbiota. Reply to comments on “Topological change of soil microbiota networks for forest resilience under gl	2
Classification of particles with respect to active inference properties as a path towards formalizing agency Comment on “Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things” by K. Friston, L. Da Cost	2
Simple rules for simple models	2
Does the free energy principle sleep on it?	2
Contextualizing kinematic coding in naturalistic scenarios: Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Becchio, Pullar, Scaliti, and Panzeri	2
Prestimulus alpha phase, not only power, modulates conscious perception. Comment on “Beyond task response—Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness” by G. Northoff, F. Zilio & J. Z	2
The neural correlates of consciousness studies and the mystery of the human mind-a commentary on "Beyond task response - Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness" by G. Northoff, F. Z	2
COVID-19 epidemic: From data to mathematical models	2
Current creative potential or generalization to the natural environment? Brief comments on the featured article	2
Brain dynamics shape cognition–Spatiotemporal Neuroscience	2
From the free energy principle to a confederation of Bayesian mechanics	2
Changes in style as a diagnostic medical tool or a way to study creativity in art?	2
Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	2
Editorial Board	2
Creative metacognition in the problem construction process comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	2
Untangling the structure and function of complex neuronal networks	2
On consensus and cooperation	1
Towards a Bayesian mechanics of metacognitive particles: A commentary on “Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things” by Friston, Da Costa, Sakthivadivel, Heins, Pavliotis, Ramstead, and Par	1
To enhance or not to enhance: A debate about cognitive enhancement from a psychological and neuroscientific perspective	1
MUSIC SELF-PROJECTION IN A MINOR MODE Comment on “The Major-Minor Mode Dichotomy in Music Perception” by Giulio Carraturo, Victor Pando-Naude, Marco Costa, Peter Vuust, Leonardo Bonetti, Elvira Bratti	1
A unified mechanism for interpreting the emotional content of voice, speech and music: Comment on “The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception” by Carraturo et al.	1
A test run of the free energy principle: All for naught?	1
Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation: A comprehensive survey	1
To punch down or to build up: Comment on “Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique “ by Skov & Nadal	1
Neuromodulatory system in network science	1
Informational embodiment: Computational role of information structure in codes and robots	1
Mechanotherapy as an alternative for cancer treatment	1
Frequency-domain integration in attention networks: Comment on "Dark brain energy: Toward an integrative model of spontaneous slow oscillations" by Gong & Zuo	1
Taming the abundance of degrees of freedom	1
Plant-soil feedback as a driver of spatial structure in ecosystems	1
Vegetation patterning and biodiversity of plant communities	1
A technical comment on “A decade of thermostatted kinetic theory models for complex active matter living systems”. New fascinating perspectives of research	1
Physics of collective transport and traffic phenomena in biology: Progress in 20 years	1
Naturalistic paradigms: Rich behaviors and environmental features comment on “Beyond simple laboratory studies: Developing sophisticated models to study rich behavior” by Maselli et al.	1
Measuring intentions in natural behaviours from body kinematic Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Cristina Becchio, Kiri Pullar, Eugenio Scaliti, Stefano	1
From affective landscape to social meaning: The role of vitality forms in the APER model. Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The Affective Pertinentization (APER) model” by Salvatore et al	1
Brain anatomy and dynamics: A commentary on “Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics” by Papo and Buldú (2024)	1
Thoughts, loud and silent. Comment on “The sound of thought: Form matters – The prosody of inner speech” by Kreiner and Eviatar	1
What, precisely, is a Bayesian belief?	1
Combinatorial creativity as blind-variation and selective-retention: A definitional update	1
Escaping a blind alley: The ZLS as a ‘cultural crucible’?	1
Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psychotherapy	1
Tracking moment-to-moment variation in cognition with informational connectivity: Comment on “connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI” by Huang, De Brigard, Cabeza, & Davis	1
A forward look to perspectives	1
Heterarchy or hierarchy? Insights from a new model of visual imagination	1
Game theory and delays in thermostatted models	1
The mechanics of evolution: Phylogeny, ontogeny, and adaptive priors	1
Inferential dynamics	1
Multiscale data for parametrising multiscale models	1
Unlocking the doors of perception: A new era in sensory and consciousness sciences	1
How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?	1
A novel recipe for prebiotic systems chemistry arising from autocatalytic relationships	1
Whiten and the ZLS: Comment on “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten	1
Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique	1
Zones of proximal cognitive assimilation in the transmission of culture	1
Thoughts and thinkers: On the complementarity between objects and processes	1
Studying naturalistic actions requires research programs and not trade-off decisions in individual studies	1
Bounding surprisal is only part of the story…Reply to comments on “To copy or not to copy? That is the question! From chimpanzees to the foundation of human technological culture”	1
For infants, actions speak louder than words Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Cristina Becchio, Kiri Pullar, Eugenio Scaliti, Stefano Panzeri	1
Integrative sensorimotor coding and the neurophysiology of intent: Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Becchio, Pullar, Scaliti, and Panzeri	1
Towards creating a mechanistic predictive theory of self-organized vegetation patterns	1
Implications of electrical properties of cells for treatment specificity of electric/electromagnetic fields-based therapeutic approaches	1
Embodiment in flux: Comment on “Informational embodiment: Computational role of information structure in codes and robots” by Alexandre Pitti et al.	1
From abstract networks to biological realities	1
The complexity of simplification	1
Can we really ‘read’ art to see the changing brain? A review and empirical assessment of clinical case reports and published artworks for systematic evidence of quality and style changes linked to dam	1
Fine-tuning social timing: From non-human to human animals and back	1
Processing liquid food with hundreds of hertz and tens of kilovolts Comment on “advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods” by F. Zare, N. Ghasemi, N. Bansal an	1
Bridging dynamical systems theory and cross-species experimental validation: Comment on “Entrainment by transcranial alternating current stimulation: Insights from models of cortical oscillations and	1
Consciousness and temporality: A psychopathologist's view Commentary to Beyond task response—Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness by Northoff, Zilio and Zhangc	1
Markov border crossings	1
From kinematics to sensorimotor communication: Understanding dual roles of action in social interaction. comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Cristina Becc	1
Towards a strange interpretation of the Free Energy Principle	1
What challenges remain after 25 years of the enhancement debate?	1
The pledge for a new era of biology-applied network theory: Comment on “Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems” by Gosak et al.	1
Editorial Board	1
Fostering mathematical models of slow spontaneous oscillations in the human brain: Comment on “dark brain energy: toward an integrative model of spontaneous slow oscillations” by Zhu-Qing Gong and Xi-	1
The oscillatory nature of the motor and perceptive kinematics invariants	1
Patterns and particles	1
Building models, testing models: Asymmetric roles of SLF III networks?	1
Multi-scale phenomena behind the transmission of infectious disease	1
Cultural mechanics	1
Conceptual promises and mechanistic challenges of the creative metacognition framework: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Izabela Lebuda and Mathias Benedek	1
From seeing X-ray sparks to sparking neural circuits	1
Cognitive neuroscience of music: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts comment on “The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception” by Giulio Carraturo, Victor Pando-Naude, Marco Costa, Pe	1
Through the cracks of consciousness - The relevance of temporal dynamics for the psychological baseline of the self and its dissociative counterpart: A commentary on “Beyond task response—Pre-stimulus	1
The new frontier of an IOM-based panspermia hypothesis: Perspectives and feasibility	1
PLRev at 20: Honoring Leonid Perlovsky and celebrating interdisciplinary science	1
Building a Synthetic Theory of Linguistic Evolution? Comment on “Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution” by B. Bickel et al.	1
Left and right temporal-parietal junctions (TPJs) as “match/mismatch” hedonic machines: A unifying account of TPJ function	1