Physics of Life Reviews

Article	Citations
Is temporo-spatial dynamics the “common currency” of brain and mind? In Quest of “Spatiotemporal Neuroscience”	125
Morphogenesis as Bayesian inference: A variational approach to pattern formation and control in complex biological systems	72
The sense of should: A biologically-based framework for modeling social pressure	61
Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems	57
The art of adapting to extreme environments: The model system Pseudoalteromonas	51
From genotypes to organisms: State-of-the-art and perspectives of a cornerstone in evolutionary dynamics	51
Spatiotemporal neuroscience – what is it and why we need it	50
Mathematical models for dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systematic review	48
Reputation and reciprocity	42
How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?	41
Dynamic and thermodynamic models of adaptation	41
The Markov blanket trick: On the scope of the free energy principle and active inference	40
Laws of nature that define biological action and perception	37
Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition	32
Impacts of climate change on vegetation pattern: Mathematical modeling and data analysis	32
Improving cancer treatments via dynamical biophysical models	31
Mineral self-organization on a lifeless planet	28
Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things	26
A systematic framework of creative metacognition	24
Prebiotic chemistry and origins of life research with atomistic computer simulations	23
An elegant nano-injection machinery for sabotaging the host: Role of Type III secretion system in virulence of different human and animal pathogenic bacteria	22
Belowground feedbacks as drivers of spatial self-organization and community assembly	22
Creativity, information, and consciousness: The information dynamics of thinking	21
The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation	21
Left and right temporal-parietal junctions (TPJs) as “match/mismatch” hedonic machines: A unifying account of TPJ function	21

Insoluble organic matter in chondrites: Archetypal melanin-like PAH-based multifunctionality at the origin of life?	18
Consonance and dissonance perception. A critical review of the historical sources, multidisciplinary findings, and main hypotheses	18
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	18
Beyond simple laboratory studies: Developing sophisticated models to study rich behavior	16
Unified representation of Life's basic properties by a 3-species Stochastic Cubic Autocatalytic Reaction-Diffusion system of equations	15
Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability	14
Motor invariants in action execution and perception	14
An active inference model of hierarchical action understanding, learning and imitation	13
Knowledge gaps and missing links in understanding mass extinctions: Can mathematical modeling help?	13
What is life? Active particles tools towards behavioral dynamics in social-biology and economics	11
Plant-soil feedback as a driver of spatial structure in ecosystems	10
The evolution of social timing	10
What would a synthetic connectome look like?	10
To copy or not to copy? That is the question! From chimpanzees to the foundation of human technological culture	10
Structure and function in artificial, zebrafish and human neural networks	9
Mechanotransduction in tumor dynamics modeling	9
Collective fluctuation implies imminent state transition	9
The distinguishing electrical properties of cancer cells	9
Markov blankets are general physical interaction surfaces	8
Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods	8
Visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture	7
Combining dynamic modeling with machine learning can be the key for the integration of mathematical and clinical oncology	5
Critical transition across the Waddington landscape as an interpretative model	5
Living on the edge – practical information geometry for studying the emergence and propagation of life forms	5
Disorders of morphogenesis as disorders of inference	5
Sparse coupling and Markov blankets	5
Computational creativity beyond machine learning	4
Inferential dynamics	4
Control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimming robots	4
It is useful to analyze correlation graphs	4
Computational models and neural bases of statistical learning in music and language	4
Chimpanzee culture in context	4
Integrating variational approaches to pattern formation into a deeper physics	4
Uncovering the spatiotemporal scales of common neuro-mental constructs	4
Boundary versus enabling conditions for the origins of life	4
Aromatic patterns: Tryptophan aromaticity as a catalyst for the emergence of life and rise of consciousness	4
Mentalising allostasis: The sense that I should eat	4
Spatial pattern formation, community assembly and resilience	4
At the crossroad of the search for spontaneous radiation and the Orch OR consciousness theory	4
Focusing on relevant data and correcting misconceptions reaffirms the ape ZLS	3
‘Phase transitions’ in bacteria – From structural transitions in free living bacteria to phenotypic transitions in bacteria within biofilms	3
The inner speech of the IDyOT	3
Escaping a blind alley: The ZLS as a ‘cultural crucible’?	3
From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability	3
The statistical mechanics of life	3
Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics	3
Can a mathematical model of mass extinctions do without environmental noise?	3
Laws of nature in action, perception and thinking	3
Building models, testing models: Asymmetric roles of SLF III networks?	3
The rise of computer modeling in prebiotic chemistry	3

Cognition coming about: Self-organisation and free-energy	3
Very particular: Comment on “How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?”	3
Synchronization, free energy and the embryogenesis of the cortex	3
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
How to distinguish between referent configuration and internal models hypotheses of motor control?	2
A test run of the free energy principle: All for naught?	2
The nonequilibrium boundaries of living systems	2
Situating and extending the sense of should	2
Changes in style as a diagnostic medical tool or a way to study creativity in art?	2
Addressing misconceptions on Latent Solution tests	2
Cancer modelling as fertile ground for new mathematical challenges	2
How should the political animals of the 21st century feel?	2
Variational free energy, individual fitness, and population dynamics under acute stress	2
Information-theoretic characterization of the complete genotype-phenotype map of a complex pre-biotic world	2
An atomistic approach to prebiotic chemistry: A tool to overcome the limits of laboratory simulations	2
Ensemble of correlation, parenclitic and synolitic graphs as a tool to detect universal changes in complex biological systems	2
The epistemic value of conformity	2
Hints from statistical physics and graph theory to build synthetic connectomes	2
Computational investigation of the primordial soup	2
Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	2
Cultural evolution in the science of culture and cultural evolution	2
A new perspective on cooperation through the lens of Parrondo's paradox	2
Energy dissipation and storage in adaptation and homeostasis	2
Functional asymmetry and the consequences of action	2
Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation: A comprehensive survey	2
The riddle of TPJ function in language processing	2
Comment on “The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation”	2
Combining inter-areal, mesoscopic, and neurodynamic models of cortical function	2
Network models of biological adaptation at the molecular scale	2
Vocal similarity theory and the biology of musical tonality	2
Some minimal notes on notation and minima	2
Aging, Inflammaging and Adaptation	2
What animal cultures may beget: Comment on “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten	2
Beyond connectionism: A neuronal dance of ephaptic and synaptic interactions	2
Adaptation through the lens of single-cell multi-omics data	2
What kind of explanation is the constructing and coasting strategy?	2
Origins, transitions, and traces of life	2
Regarding flows under the free energy principle	2
One person's modus ponens…	1
From spatio-temporal brain-mind dynamics to Spatiotemporal Neuroscience	1
From regular to irregular: Unveiling climate change imprints from vegetation patterns	1
Art as a window to altered perception? – A possible understanding of neurodegenerative diseases through the philosophy of Konrad Fiedler	1
Beyond the metabolic costs of prediction error	1
System-specificity of genotype-phenotype map structure	1
Anticipatory and target related “match/mismatch” activities of the TPJ	1
Formic acid, the precursor of formamide, from serpentinization	1
Matches, mismatches, and the experience of supernumerary body parts	1
Searching for unifying laws of general adaptation syndrome	1
A predictive model of attention	1
Multiscale data for parametrising multiscale models	1
Mathematical oncology: A new frontier in cancer biology and clinical decision making	1
Escaping anthropocentrism in the study of non-human culture: Comment on “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten	1
Multiscale and multi-physical problems	1
Climatic conditions drive vegetation patterns: A theoretical and practical evidence	1
Action and perception manifolds have gradients that may play a role in learning	1
Challenges in astrochemistry: The spectroscopic point of view	1
Does the free energy principle sleep on it?	1
Psychocultural histories and explanatory gaps	1
The final frontier in connectomics: Forward engineering brain networks	1
Global Workspace Theory, LIDA and IDyOT	1
Towards predictive neural network dynamical theory	1
How can we relax the cost of reward and punishment?	1
Dynamics versus dualism	1
The structure of biological complexity: Comment on “Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems” by Gosak et al.	1
Toward a moral psychology untethered from long-term cooperation	1
Towards data-driven, next-generation understanding of network physiology	1
Simulating pathways of doom	1
From computer vision to epilepsy, a comment on “The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation”	1
Goldstein's ‘catastrophic reactions’ reinterpreted as neuroaesthetic ‘signatures’	1
Particular flows and attracting sets	1
The art of abstraction	1
Time and consciousness	1
Computational models and fundamental constraints can inform the design of synthetic connectomes	1
A look forward to further developments: Building bridges between mathematics and economics in a multiscale fashion	1
Crystals and the debates on the nature, recognition and origin of life	1
Calls of the wild: Exploring the evolutionary roots of consonance and dissonance	1
Self-organization in physical and biological systems	1
Theoretical origins	1
The hare and the honey: Health care as transformative learning	1
The problem with solutions: A commentary of “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten	1

Studying the hierarchy of actions from motor primitives	1
Taming the abundance of degrees of freedom	1
Connectome of synthetic cells	1
Reward influences cortical representations	1
Blankets at birth: Transitional objects	1
Toward multiscale derivation of behavioral dynamics	1
What art can tell us about the human brain, in health and disease	1
Computational modeling aids in linking structure, dynamics, and function of neural systems	1
Pushing the boundaries of a physical approach for the study of sensorimotor control	1
A breakthrough in the history of FUHEMAS?	1
Similarities between terrestrial planets at the time life appeared on Earth	1
Physics-based character animation and human motor control	1
The ultimate trick?	1
On the right way to crack nuts and farm fruit	1
The vigor law as a kinematic invariant at work in perceptual-cognitive processes	1
Binding brain dynamics building up heteroclinic networks	1
Driving the connectome by-wire	1
Multilayer coupled mechanism	1
Harmonic waves as the fundamental principle underlying temporo-spatial dynamics of brain and mind	1
The search for universality in evolutionary landscapes	1
Reply to comments on “Prebiotic chemistry and origins of life research with atomistic computer simulations”	1
Patterns and particles	1
Are neurodegenerative disorders causing characteristic changes in visual artwork?	1
Can major breakthroughs in cancer be achieved through theoretical models?	1
Epidemic models and their use	1
A comment on “The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation”	1
From a free energy principle to a free energy model?	1
A new and potential application for network science in the field of life sciences	1
Towards creating a mechanistic predictive theory of self-organized vegetation patterns	1
Commentary on Wright and Bourke “The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation”	1
Data-rich modeling helps answer increasingly complex questions on variant and disease interactions	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
The calculus of Life: Contingency vs. necessity	1
No sound evidence supports the notion that we can “read” art	1
Non-invariants may be used for socially-relevant perceptual decisions	1
Synthetic connectomes at the interface	1
Can we “read” art…at all? A psychometric perspective on the possibility of measuring artwork attributes	1
From local match/mismatch signals to updating of task-relevant beliefs: The temporo-parietal junction and its embedment in cortical networks	1
Whiten and the ZLS: Comment on “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten	1
The role of synchronization in neural systems and their consequence to the neural behavior	1
Functional properties of morphological networks. Comment on “Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems” by Marko Gosak et al.	1
Creativity, art and brain	1
Musical form: A challenge for models of musical cognition	1
From brain images to drawings – New insights informing the creativity-psychopathology debate	1
Co-constructing Markov blankets: Tricky solutions	1
Are TPJs conflict detectors or solvers?	1
Integration of mathematical modeling of vegetation patterns with data and climate changes	1
Global perspectives linking climate change with vegetation pattern	1
Some aspects of adaptation and evolution	1
Genotype-phenotype maps and the predictability of evolution	1
Visual sensitivity to biological motion invariants in humans at birth	1
Mineral self-organized structures in pre-biotic chemistry	1
Viewing mass extinctions through the lens of mathematical modeling	1
Addressing market regime transitions with the tools of behavioral swarms and kinetic theory	1
TPJ in speech and praxis	1
From the free energy principle to a confederation of Bayesian mechanics	1
Markov border crossings	1
Cultural cognition and technology: Mechanical actions speak louder than bodily actions	1
Neuromuscular invariants in action execution and perception	1
The role mathematics can play in physics of life	1
Commentary on “The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation”	1
Untenable propositions and alternative avenues.	1
Motor-invariants for action understanding in video	1
Prognostic potential of reading art in brain damage and the possible contribution of non-invasive brain stimulation	1
Situated models and the modeler: A comment on “The Markov blanket trick: On the scope of the free energy principle and active inference” by Raja, Valluri, Baggs, Chemero and Anderson	1
Studying naturalistic actions requires research programs and not trade-off decisions in individual studies	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
Data-driven theory formulation or theory-driven data interpretation?	1
Particularly average	1
Some features on methodology of dengue modelling linked to data	1
Interstellar chemical reactions toward the synthesis of the life's building blocks	1
The chiral mind: The role of symmetry in the growth of new hierarchical layers in cognition	1
Species extinction in different time scales	1
Exercise science perspective	1
Dynamics and stability of task-specific manifolds	1
Dealing with fragments of past biospheres	1
IDyOT architecture - is this how minds operate?	1
Parametric control of limb mechanics is accomplished in the spinal cord by parallel-distributed processing	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
A forward look to perspectives	1
The missing link among the functions of the temporo-parietal junction	1
A new concept of brain lateralization from the function of the temporo-parietal junctions: Comment on “Left and right temporal-parietal junctions (TPJs) as “match/mismatch” hedonic machines: A unifyin	1
Explaining the ‘gigantic gulf’: ‘Sorta’ cultures, cultural selection and compositionality	1
On the significance of the electrostatic differences between cancer and normal cells	1
The importance of commitment for stable cooperation	1
Thresholds, bifurcation and chaos in biological phenomena	1
Listening to dissonant and atonal music induces psychological tension and anxiety	1
The oscillatory nature of the motor and perceptive kinematics invariants	1
“Constraining” the probability toward a specified attractor	1