Physics of Life Reviews

Article	Citations
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	117
Data-rich modeling helps answer increasingly complex questions on variant and disease interactions	70
From a free energy principle to a free energy model?	67
On the significance of the electrostatic differences between cancer and normal cells	65
Inferential dynamics	64
Particular flows and attracting sets	54
Towards data-driven, next-generation understanding of network physiology	49
Are neurodegenerative disorders causing characteristic changes in visual artwork?	49
Trick or treat	47
Situating and extending the sense of should	44
Aging, Inflammaging and Adaptation	43
On microbial syringes: Advances in our understanding of type III secretion systems in bacterial pathogenesis	42
Editorial Board	42
The role of synchronization in neural systems and their consequence to the neural behavior	41
The chiral mind: The role of symmetry in the growth of new hierarchical layers in cognition	33
Sociality and Timing: Correlation or Causation? Comment on ‘The evolution of social timing’ by Verga L., Kotz S. & Ravignani A.	32
A look forward to further developments: Building bridges between mathematics and economics in a multiscale fashion	31
Beyond simple laboratory studies, toward interactive methods	27
A forward look to perspectives	26
An exciting path ahead	24
From physics to sentience: Deciphering the semantics of the free-energy principle and evaluating its claims	23
Unambiguous precision	21
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	21
From particles to collectives	20
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	18

Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation	17
Social timing: More than combinatorial probabilities?	16
The complexity of simplification	16
Dealing with fragments of past biospheres	16
Prognostic potential of reading art in brain damage and the possible contribution of non-invasive brain stimulation	15
Non-invariants may be used for socially-relevant perceptual decisions	14
Editorial Board	14
Data-driven theory formulation or theory-driven data interpretation?	14
Vocal similarity theory and the biology of musical tonality	13
Psychocultural histories and explanatory gaps	13
Mathematical modeling is an efficient research tool to address challenges in mass extinction research	13
On consensus and cooperation	12
Language as a means to reduce uncertainty	9
How can we relax the cost of reward and punishment?	9
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.	8
From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability	7
Editorial Board	6
Putting the framework to work: Comment on “a systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Lebuda & Benedek	6
Yes, And	6
Distinctions between brain structure, complexity, and function. Comment on “Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics” by Papo and Buldú	6
Going deeper into the feelings in creative metacognition: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	6
Consciousness and temporality: A psychopathologist's view Commentary to Beyond task response—Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness by Northoff, Zilio and Zhangc	6
Movement control mechanism of underwater swimmers via resonance entrainment of central pattern generators Comment on “Control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimmi	6
Mapping and measuring the Mind's Eye - Comment on visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture by Spagna et al.	5
Mechanisms underlying the social effects of music: Comment on “Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability”	5
Aromatic patterns: Tryptophan aromaticity as a catalyst for the emergence of life and rise of consciousness	5
Interpersonal synchrony implies simultaneity, musical improvisation requires rules. Comment on “Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability” by Tal-Chen Rabinowitch	5
Building models, testing models: Asymmetric roles of SLF III networks?	5
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	5
The music we march to: Beyond beat, floating intentionality and improvisation	5
Gut mechanoimmunology: Shaping immune response through physical cues	4
The interplay between biochemical mediators and mechanotransduction in chondrocytes: Unravelling the differential responses in primary knee osteoarthritis	4
A decade of thermostatted kinetic theory models for complex active matter living systems	4
Stretching the limits of tightness and looseness in music interaction Reply to comments on “Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability”	4
Heritability of white matter in twins: A diffusion neuroimaging review	4
Embodied playfulness in musical synchrony: Comment on “musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability” by Tal-Chen Rabinowitch	4
Rotating waves and multistability in locomotion models	4
Alpha suppression in the context of cross-frequency interactions between fast and intermediate timescales	4
Mechanotransduction in tumor dynamics modeling	4
The Markov blanket trick: On the scope of the free energy principle and active inference	4
Chimpanzee culture in context	4
Consonance and dissonance perception. A critical review of the historical sources, multidisciplinary findings, and main hypotheses	4
Combinatorial creativity as blind-variation and selective-retention: A definitional update	4
A test run of the free energy principle: All for naught?	3
Left and right temporal-parietal junctions (TPJs) as “match/mismatch” hedonic machines: A unifying account of TPJ function	3
Persons and their affective experiences. Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The affective pertinentization (APER) model” by salvatore et al.	3
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	3
Genotype-phenotype maps and the predictability of evolution	3
Searching for unifying laws of general adaptation syndrome	3
Ant colony optimization: A bibliometric review	3

Game theory and delays in thermostatted models	3
Reputation and reciprocity	3
Editorial Board	3
Blankets at birth: Transitional objects	3
LLMs and generative agent-based models for complex systems research	3
Physics of collective transport and traffic phenomena in biology: Progress in 20 years	3
System-specificity of genotype-phenotype map structure	3
Pushing the boundaries of a physical approach for the study of sensorimotor control	3
Studying the hierarchy of actions from motor primitives	2
The mechanics of evolution: Phylogeny, ontogeny, and adaptive priors	2
Variability allows for adaptation in dynamic environments comment on ‘From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability’ by L. Casartelli, C. Maronati	2
Cultural mechanics	2
Grounding social timing	2
Motor variability in task-space and body-space	2
Addressing market regime transitions with the tools of behavioral swarms and kinetic theory	2
Emergence of Life-like properties from nonlinear spatial kinetics	2
Unlocking the doors of perception: A new era in sensory and consciousness sciences	2
Photobiomodulation effects on cancer cells through modifications of their bioelectric properties	2
Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution	2
Mathematical oncology: A new frontier in cancer biology and clinical decision making	2
The strangest particles in the world	2
‘Snakes and ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago	2
Fine-tuning social timing: From non-human to human animals and back	2
Riders on a storm – The evaluation and control of creative processes A comment on: “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Izabela Lebuda and Mathias Benedek	2
Editorial Board	2
Prescriptive, descriptive or predictive models: What approach should be taken when empirical data is limited? Reply to comments on “Mathematical models for Dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systema	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
Markov border crossings	2
Heterarchy or hierarchy? Insights from a new model of visual imagination	2
Multiple applications of pulsed electric fields are game changer in food industry and biomedicine	2
The epistemic value of conformity	2
The ultimate trick?	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
Editorial Board	2
The interplay between inflammatory mediators and mechanotransduction is mediated by ion channels in articular chondrocytes: Functional consequences in osteoarthritis	2
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	2
Implications of electrical properties of cells for treatment specificity of electric/electromagnetic fields-based therapeutic approaches	2
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”	2
Calls of the wild: Exploring the evolutionary roots of consonance and dissonance	2
Creative metacognition: A much needed bridge between meta-reasoning and creativity	2
Multiscale and multi-physical problems	2
Another brick in the wall? Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	2
Combining inter-areal, mesoscopic, and neurodynamic models of cortical function	2
Brain anatomy and dynamics: A commentary on “Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics” by Papo and Buldú (2024)	2
Generative models of complex behavior: A behavioral Turing test. Comment on “beyond simple laboratory studies: Developing sophisticated models to study rich behavior” by Maselli, Gordon, Eluchans, Lan	2
Past, present, and future: Dissecting the bacterial type III secretion system	2
Listening to dissonant and atonal music induces psychological tension and anxiety	2
Creativity, art and brain	2
Behavioral and game-theoretic modeling of dengue epidemic: Comment on “Mathematical models for dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systematic review” by M. Aguiar et al.	2
Are TPJs conflict detectors or solvers?	2
Mathematical models for dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systematic review	2
Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods	2
Understanding the role of mechanical stimuli in chondrocyte responsiveness and adaptations: Need for integrating insights on OA-associated changes in the multi-scale mechanical environment	2
Towards a strange interpretation of the Free Energy Principle	2
Beyond ‘cold’ creative metacognition: Toward a more integrated framework	2
Why predicting secreted effectors and what they do is important	1
Update on “Emotion and autobiographical memory”: 14 years of advances in understanding functions, constructions, and consequences	1
The distinguishing electrical properties of cancer cells	1
Decoding brain complexity: Structural-functional interplay in neural networks	1
Epidemic models and their use	1
Single-molecule origin of life scenario: Necessity and feasibility	1
Beyond task response - A key to the subjective aspects of consciousness	1
Patterns and particles	1
Can a mathematical model of mass extinctions do without environmental noise?	1
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	1
Living on the edge – practical information geometry for studying the emergence and propagation of life forms	1
Stressed tumors and their maths	1
Belowground feedbacks as drivers of spatial self-organization and community assembly	1
Commentary on “ ‘Snakes and ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago”	1
Affective dynamics in unionization and solidarity: Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The Affective Pertinentization (APER) model” by Salvatore et al.	1
Laws of nature in action, perception and thinking	1
Multiscale and multi-physical problems	1
A new perspective on cooperation through the lens of Parrondo's paradox	1
Evolution and irreversibility: Two distinct phenomena and their distinct laws of nature	1
Theoretical physics unified model building meets biology: Comment on “Unified representation of life's basic properties by a 3-species stochastic cubic autocatalytic reaction-diffusion system of equat	1
Editorial Board	1
The art of adapting to extreme environments: The model system Pseudoalteromonas	1
Whiten and the ZLS: Comment on “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten	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 comment on “The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation”	1
Very particular: Comment on “How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?”	1
Matches, mismatches, and the experience of supernumerary body parts	1
Why graph theory deserves more focus. Comment on “Connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI” by Huang et al.	1
The neglected conscious subject in consciousness science: Commentary on “Beyond task response—Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness” by G. Northoff, F. Zilio & J. Zhang	1
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	1
Adaptation through the lens of single-cell multi-omics data	1
Environmental factors and their impact on chronic pain development and maintenance	1
Physics-based character animation and human motor control	1
Synchronization: When is it more than an epiphenomenon? A modelling approach. Comment on “the evolution of social timing” by L. Verga, S. A. Kotz & A. Ravignani	1
Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition	1
Knowledge gaps and missing links in understanding mass extinctions: Can mathematical modeling help?	1
Bridging network structures and dynamics	1
All is not quiet on the food safety front thanks to pulsed electric field treatment	1
From tasks to models of visual mental imagery: Comment on “Visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture” by Spagna et al.	1
Opportunities and challenges in connectivity analysis for task-based fMRI comment on “connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI” by Huang S, De Brigard, F., Cabeza, R, and Davis, S.W.	1
The role mathematics can play in physics of life	1
Towards creating a mechanistic predictive theory of self-organized vegetation patterns	1
Speech: a skeleton for thought? Comment on “The Sound of Thought: Form Matters – The Prosody of Inner Speech” by Hamutal Kreiner, Zohar Eviatar	1
What art can tell us about the human brain, in health and disease	1
The continuum of regulatory processes in creativity: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Lebuda, Izabela & Benedek, Mathias	1
Plant-soil feedback as a driver of spatial structure in ecosystems	1
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	1
A timely research guide on liquid food treatment using pulsed electric field	1
From local match/mismatch signals to updating of task-relevant beliefs: The temporo-parietal junction and its embedment in cortical networks	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
Untenable propositions and alternative avenues.	1
The structure of biological complexity: Comment on “Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems” by Gosak et al.	1
From computer vision to epilepsy, a comment on “The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation”	1
The networkness of the brain	1
How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?	1
Parametric control of limb mechanics is accomplished in the spinal cord by parallel-distributed processing	1
Does the free energy principle sleep on it?	1
Exercise science perspective	1
Variational free energy, individual fitness, and population dynamics under acute stress	1
Sparse coupling and Markov blankets	1
Multilayer coupled mechanism	1
WITHDRAWN: Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	1
Commentary on Wright and Bourke “The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation”	1
Goldstein's ‘catastrophic reactions’ reinterpreted as neuroaesthetic ‘signatures’	1
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.	1
How should the political animals of the 21st century feel?	1
Constructing agentive inference as a universal property: Strange functorial things and categorical red queen dynamics	1
The new frontier of an IOM-based panspermia hypothesis: Perspectives and feasibility	1
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	1
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	1
Novel directions in modeling the mechanically-driven tumor progression	1
Motor-invariants for action understanding in video	1
Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems	1
What kind of explanation is the constructing and coasting strategy?	1
Zones of proximal cognitive assimilation in the transmission of culture	1
Escaping a blind alley: The ZLS as a ‘cultural crucible’?	1
What, precisely, is a Bayesian belief?	1
Editorial Board	1
Actions are all we need for cognition, but do we know enough about them?	1
The evolution of human music in light of increased prosocial behavior: a new model	1
Insoluble organic matter - an “organic” cradle of life	1
On fields, light and excitability in glioblastoma	1
Art as a window to altered perception? – A possible understanding of neurodegenerative diseases through the philosophy of Konrad Fiedler	1
Life and self-organization on the way to artificial intelligence for collective dynamics	1
Current creative potential or generalization to the natural environment? Brief comments on the featured article	1
Transversal aromaticity: Tryptophan as a bridge between molecular patterns and consciousness explained	1
Studying naturalistic actions requires research programs and not trade-off decisions in individual studies	1
The role of alpha activity in regulating inward and outward conscious perception	1
The long and winding road to understanding organismal construction	1
Multiscale data for parametrising multiscale models	1
Additional aspects to the tight-loose in music model	1
Global perspectives linking climate change with vegetation pattern	1
The riddle of TPJ function in language processing	1
Synchronization, free energy and the embryogenesis of the cortex	1
Towards a multi-modal model of mental imagery (and implications for theories of consciousness) Comment on ``Visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture'' by A. Spagna et al	1
Perspectives in cancer treatment	1
Collective fluctuation implies imminent state transition	1
Combining dynamic modeling with machine learning can be the key for the integration of mathematical and clinical oncology	1
Investigating and forecasting infectious disease dynamics using epidemiological and molecular surveillance data	1
Toward a moral psychology untethered from long-term cooperation	1
Explaining the ‘gigantic gulf’: ‘Sorta’ cultures, cultural selection and compositionality	1
Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psychotherapy	1
Wanted: Architecture for changing minds	1
Optimality and stability of human behavior	1
Climatic conditions drive vegetation patterns: A theoretical and practical evidence	1
Since Feeling is First: Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The Affective Pertinentization (APER) Model” by Sergio Salvatore, Arianna Palmieri, Raffaele De Luca Picione, Vincenzo Bochicchio	1
Dynamics and stability of task-specific manifolds	1
A guided tour through the spaces of particular “minds”: A Comment on “Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things”	1
Editorial Board	1
More than one effect in every affect	1
From animal biology to simulated models and back: Comment on “control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimming robots” by Gordleeva et al.	1
When patterns come to life	1
Nuancing the heterarchical theory of visual mental imagery	1
Insoluble organic matter in chondrites: Archetypal melanin-like PAH-based multifunctionality at the origin of life?	1
Unraveling the complexity of neural networks	1
Complexity in structural and functional brain networks. Comment on “Structure and function in artificial, zebrafish and human neural networks” by Ji et al.	1
A systematic framework of creative metacognition	1
Environmental factors in chronic pain comment on “Environmental factors and their impact on chronic pain development and maintenance” by M.B. Sant'Anna, et al.	1
Adding a mental health perspective on social timing	1