Physics of Life Reviews

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	301
Towards the utilization of LLMs for misinformation modeling and detection	132
Particular flows and attracting sets	111
Social timing: More than combinatorial probabilities?	96
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	89
Language as a means to reduce uncertainty	89
A look forward to further developments: Building bridges between mathematics and economics in a multiscale fashion	71
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	70
Bodily rhythms and the Brain: Critical links to cognition in health and disease. Comment on ‘A body-brain (dis)equilibrium regulating transitions from health to pathology’ by Antonio Criscuolo, Anna C	68
Editorial Board	67
Putting the framework to work: Comment on “a systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Lebuda & Benedek	57
Going deeper into the feelings in creative metacognition: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	55
Rotating waves and multistability in locomotion models	54
From physics to sentience: Deciphering the semantics of the free-energy principle and evaluating its claims	51
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”	50
Brain paradox – Timescales matter! Comment on “The paradox of the self-studying brain” by S.Battaglia, P. Servajean & K. Friston	46
On implementation of nonlocal terms in models in ecology and evolution. Comment on ‘Nonlocal models in biology and life sciences: Sources, developments, and applications’ by S. Pal & R. Melnick	41
Another brick in the wall? Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	39
Editorial Board	39
Photobiomodulation effects on cancer cells through modifications of their bioelectric properties	39
Toward embodied and action-oriented studies and models of peripersonal space: Comment on “Computational models of peripersonal space representations” by Bertoni et al.	34
“Homo informatio”	33
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	31
Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods	30
Patterns of neuronal synchrony in higher-order networks	30

Commentary on “ ‘Snakes and ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago”	29
Reevaluating thalamic contributions to pain: A translational framework for precision neuromodulation	25
To comment or not to comment, that is the question!	25
The structure of biological complexity: Comment on “Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems” by Gosak et al.	24
Multiscale and multi-physical problems	23
Neuromuscular invariants in action execution and perception	23
The vigor law as a kinematic invariant at work in perceptual-cognitive processes	23
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	22
Integrating large language models and active inference to understand eye movements in reading and dyslexia	22
From local match/mismatch signals to updating of task-relevant beliefs: The temporo-parietal junction and its embedment in cortical networks	22
A systematic framework of creative metacognition	21
The role mathematics can play in physics of life	20
Editorial Board	20
When patterns come to life	20
Adding a mental health perspective on social timing	19
Transversal aromaticity: Tryptophan as a bridge between molecular patterns and consciousness explained	19
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	18
Time in peripersonal space. Comment on "computational models of peripersonal space representation" by Tommaso Bertoni, Ishan-Singh J. Chauhan, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino	18
Why the memory palace is mightier than the memory pharmacy	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	18
Surfing brain waves without sinking	17
Physics-based character animation and human motor control	15
Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour	15
A system sciences approach to consonance/dissonance: From biological constraints to cultural differences	15
The second law of thermodynamics, life and Earth‘s planetary machinery revisited	15
The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception	14
The devil is in the method details. Comment on ‘Visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture’ by Spagna et al.	14
Impacts of climate change on vegetation pattern: Mathematical modeling and data analysis	13
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	13
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	12
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	11
Social timing as an active, multisensory, and embodied process. A commentary on “The evolution of social timing” by Verga, Kotz and Ravignani	10
A contribution to understanding the application of Pulsed Electric Fields in liquid food processing	10
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	10
From multi-scale to non-local models	10
Visual context drives uncertainty-reduction and novelty-seeking exploration during action understanding	9
Determinism of formamide-based biogenic prebiotic reactions	9
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., &	9
How many more uses of bricks can we generate? How knowledge is somewhat neglected in a model full of knowledge	9
Addressing misconceptions on Latent Solution tests	9
From a mathematical science of living systems to biology and economics	9
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	9
Editorial Board	9
Preliminaries to artificial consciousness: A multidimensional heuristic approach	8
Decoding higher-order tumor-microenvironment interactions via an innovative computational framework: Comment on “High-order interaction modeling of tumor-microenvironment crosstalk for tumor growth” b	8
A brigde toward mathematics theory in living systems: the thermostatted kinetic theory method for crowd dynamics	8
Control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimming robots	8
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	8
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.	8
From Parrondo's paradox to collective intelligence	8

Comment on “Physics-based character animation and human motor control” by J. Llobera & C. Charbonnier	8
Knowledge clustering and the acquisition of creative expertise	7
Particularly average	7
The hare and the honey: Health care as transformative learning	7
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	7
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	7
Species extinction in different time scales	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,	7
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.	6
Comment on “Viscoelastic mechanics of living cells” by Hui Zhou, Ruye Liu, Yizhou Xu, Jierui Fan, Xinyue Liu, Longquan Chen, Qiang Wei	6
Perception and response of skeleton to mechanical stress	6
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	6
Motor invariants in action execution and perception	6
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	6
From adaptive networks to expanding state spaces: Comment on “Beyond networks: Toward adaptive models of biological complexity” by Pessoa	6
A meta-perspective on the creative metacognition framework. Reply to comments on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition”	6
Computational models of peripersonal space representation	6
Persons and their affective experiences. Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The affective pertinentization (APER) model” by salvatore et al.	6
Heritability of white matter in twins: A diffusion neuroimaging review	6
Bioelectrics for healthy and food-secure lives: Reply to comments on “Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods”	6
Focusing on relevant data and correcting misconceptions reaffirms the ape ZLS	6
Possible contribution to data-driven primate research: Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Becchio, Pullar, Scaliti, and Panzeri	6
Prognostic potential of reading art in brain damage and the possible contribution of non-invasive brain stimulation	5
The music we march to: Beyond beat, floating intentionality and improvisation	5
Aromatic patterns: Tryptophan aromaticity as a catalyst for the emergence of life and rise of consciousness	5
Beyond simple laboratory studies, toward interactive methods	5
Yes, And	5
High-order interaction modeling of tumor-microenvironment crosstalk for tumor growth	5
Non-invariants may be used for socially-relevant perceptual decisions	5
Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation	5
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	5
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.	5
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,	4
Information, computation, and causality in living systems	4
Measures, constructs, and constructing measurement: Reply to comments on “Can we really ‘read’ art to see the changing brain?”	4
Neural decoding reliability: Breakthroughs and potential of brain–computer interfaces technologies in the treatment of neurological diseases	4
Building bidirectional, signed, and weighted interaction network among microbes	4
From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability	4
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	4
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	4
Consonance and dissonance perception. A critical review of the historical sources, multidisciplinary findings, and main hypotheses	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	4
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.	4
Motor variability in task-space and body-space	4
Chrono-mechanobiology: The complex interactions between mechanotransduction and circadian rhythms in the intervertebral disc and articular cartilage, in health and disease	4
Ant colony optimization: A bibliometric review	4
Listening to dissonant and atonal music induces psychological tension and anxiety	3
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	3
Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution	3
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	3
Untangling the structure and function of complex neuronal networks	3
Weighting and integrating heterogeneous behavioral cues comment on ‘kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour’	3
Simulating social dynamics with artificial intelligence	3
Multiple applications of pulsed electric fields are game changer in food industry and biomedicine	3
More than one effect in every affect	3
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	3
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	3
Beyond task response - A key to the subjective aspects of consciousness	3
Current creative potential or generalization to the natural environment? Brief comments on the featured article	3
WITHDRAWN: Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	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
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	3
Untenable propositions and alternative avenues.	3
From the free energy principle to a confederation of Bayesian mechanics	3
The path forward for modeling action-oriented cognition as active inference	3
The riddle of TPJ function in language processing	2
Mnemonics, optimization, and leveraging what we already have: Comment on “To enhance or not to enhance: A debate about cognitive enhancement from a psychological and neuroscientific perspective” by Gr	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
The toughness, elasticity, color, and consistency of cooperation	2
Does the free energy principle sleep on it?	2
All quantum systems are strange	2
A kinetic theory approach for modeling Alzheimer's disease: Insights and challenges	2
How can we relax the cost of reward and punishment?	2
Contextualizing kinematic coding in naturalistic scenarios: Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Becchio, Pullar, Scaliti, and Panzeri	2
Are neurodegenerative disorders causing characteristic changes in visual artwork?	2
At the crossroad of the search for spontaneous radiation and the Orch OR consciousness theory	2
Language: A special cognitive gadget: Comment on “Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution” by Balthasar Bickel, Anne-Lise Giraud, Klaus Zuberb..hler, Carel P. van Schaik	2
Electrical properties of cancer cells: A next generation biophysical therapeutic target	2
Implications of cell's electrical properties for standard of care in glioblastoma therapy	2
Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	2

Living on the edge – practical information geometry for studying the emergence and propagation of life forms	2
Meta-control and navigating creative trade-offs: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Lebuda and Benedek	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
Language Extinction and Diversification: The Two Sides of the Same Coin	2
Goldstein's ‘catastrophic reactions’ reinterpreted as neuroaesthetic ‘signatures’	2
On the right way to crack nuts and farm fruit	2
Reaction-diffusion waves in biology: new trends, recent developments	2
COVID-19 epidemic: From data to mathematical models	2
Networked collective dynamics in animal ecology and cell biology	2
White matter, and why twin resemblance can still matter	2
Changes in style as a diagnostic medical tool or a way to study creativity in art?	2
The many faces of action	2
Biological models with nonlocal terms: Future scopes of research: Comment on “Nonlocal models in biology and life sciences: Sources, developments, and applications” by S. Pal & R. Melnick	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
Trick or treat	2
Matches, mismatches, and the experience of supernumerary body parts	2
An exciting path ahead	2
Brain dynamics shape cognition–Spatiotemporal Neuroscience	2
“ABMs are dead, long live G-ABMs!”, or a roadmap for opinion dynamics studies	2
The importance of tradeoffs in neural and motor variability	2
Data-driven mathematical modeling approaches for COVID-19: A survey	2
Physical reasoning is the missing link between action goals and kinematics	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
The body is not there to compute	2
Editorial Board	2
Cognitive control under active inference: from habits to metacognition. Comment on "Active inference and cognitive control: Balancing deliberation and habits through precision optimization” by Riccard	2
Comment on " Protein post-translational modifications and tumor immunity: A pan-cancer perspective"	2
A biophysicist’s guide to translocation of double-stranded nucleic acids through solid-state nanopores	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
Snakes and ladders in the evolution of language	2
Can a mathematical model of mass extinctions do without environmental noise?	2
Some additional pieces in the jigsaw puzzle of innovation and technological culture	2
Multilayer coupled mechanism	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
Cultural evolution in the science of culture and cultural evolution	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
Towards data-driven, next-generation understanding of network physiology	2
Can we “read” art…at all? A psychometric perspective on the possibility of measuring artwork attributes	2
Data-rich modeling helps answer increasingly complex questions on variant and disease interactions	2
Homo erectus’ slowly broadening Zone of Bounded Surprisals opened the way to technological culture	2
Mapping and measuring the Mind's Eye - Comment on visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture by Spagna et al.	2
Creative metacognition in the problem construction process comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	2
Fundamental constraints shaping intrinsic brain activity: Comment on “Dark brain energy: Toward an integrative model of spontaneous slow oscillations” by Zhu-Qing Gong and Xi-Nian Zuo	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
Simple rules for simple models	2
Visual sensitivity to biological motion invariants in humans at birth	2
No sound evidence supports the notion that we can “read” art	2
The spatiotemporal structure of neural activities shapes cognitive functions: Comment on “brain dynamics shape cognition–spatiotemporal neuroscience” by Georg Northoff, Angelika Wolman, and Jianfeng Z	2
Editorial Board	2
Connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI	2
Unlocking the doors of perception: A new era in sensory and consciousness sciences	1
Patterns and particles	1
Embodiment in flux: Comment on “Informational embodiment: Computational role of information structure in codes and robots” by Alexandre Pitti et al.	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
Affective semiosis and micro-genesis of meaning. Scope and pertinence of the APER model. Reply to comments on “The affective grounds of the mind. The affective pertinentization (APER) model.”	1
Combinatorial creativity as blind-variation and selective-retention: A definitional update	1
Physics of collective transport and traffic phenomena in biology: Progress in 20 years	1
The complexity of simplification	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
A forward look to perspectives	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
Brain anatomy and dynamics: A commentary on “Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics” by Papo and Buldú (2024)	1
Multi-scale phenomena behind the transmission of infectious disease	1
Towards a strange interpretation of the Free Energy Principle	1
From abstract networks to biological realities	1
What, precisely, is a Bayesian belief?	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
From seeing X-ray sparks to sparking neural circuits	1
Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique	1
From complementarity to non-duality: Seeing objects and processes as pragmatic constructs	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
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
On consensus and cooperation	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
The mechanics of evolution: Phylogeny, ontogeny, and adaptive priors	1
Whiten and the ZLS: Comment on “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten	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
Heterarchy or hierarchy? Insights from a new model of visual imagination	1
A technical comment on “A decade of thermostatted kinetic theory models for complex active matter living systems”. New fascinating perspectives of research	1
Fine-tuning social timing: From non-human to human animals and back	1
Remodeling of non-coding RNA regulatory networks: Decoding the pathological mechanisms and new therapeutic paradigms of cardiovascular diseases	1
Cultural mechanics	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
Implications of electrical properties of cells for treatment specificity of electric/electromagnetic fields-based therapeutic approaches	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
Building models, testing models: Asymmetric roles of SLF III networks?	1
Thoughts and thinkers: On the complementarity between objects and processes	1
Inferential dynamics	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
Cooperation versus social welfare	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
Emotional responses to musical mode: Do auditory and musical abilities play a role? Comment on “The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception” by Carraturo et al.	1
Zones of proximal cognitive assimilation in the transmission of culture	1
Markov border crossings	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