Physics of Life Reviews

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	280
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	119
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	113
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”	103
Going deeper into the feelings in creative metacognition: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	88
Towards the utilization of LLMs for misinformation modeling and detection	84
Particular flows and attracting sets	74
Social timing: More than combinatorial probabilities?	65
Language as a means to reduce uncertainty	63
Putting the framework to work: Comment on “a systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Lebuda & Benedek	53
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	51
A look forward to further developments: Building bridges between mathematics and economics in a multiscale fashion	51
Rotating waves and multistability in locomotion models	49
From physics to sentience: Deciphering the semantics of the free-energy principle and evaluating its claims	48
Brain paradox – Timescales matter! Comment on “The paradox of the self-studying brain” by S.Battaglia, P. Servajean & K. Friston	41
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	38
Toward embodied and action-oriented studies and models of peripersonal space: Comment on “Computational models of peripersonal space representations” by Bertoni et al.	38
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	38
Another brick in the wall? Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	36
Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods	34
Editorial Board	31
Photobiomodulation effects on cancer cells through modifications of their bioelectric properties	30
Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems	29
“Homo informatio”	29
Patterns of neuronal synchrony in higher-order networks	28

Reevaluating thalamic contributions to pain: A translational framework for precision neuromodulation	27
Commentary on “ ‘Snakes and ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago”	27
The structure of biological complexity: Comment on “Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems” by Gosak et al.	24
To comment or not to comment, that is the question!	24
Neuromuscular invariants in action execution and perception	21
The vigor law as a kinematic invariant at work in perceptual-cognitive processes	21
From local match/mismatch signals to updating of task-relevant beliefs: The temporo-parietal junction and its embedment in cortical networks	21
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	20
Multiscale and multi-physical problems	20
Integrating large language models and active inference to understand eye movements in reading and dyslexia	19
A systematic framework of creative metacognition	19
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
Editorial Board	18
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
Adding a mental health perspective on social timing	17
Transversal aromaticity: Tryptophan as a bridge between molecular patterns and consciousness explained	17
A system sciences approach to consonance/dissonance: From biological constraints to cultural differences	17
The role mathematics can play in physics of life	17
When patterns come to life	16
Physics-based character animation and human motor control	15
The devil is in the method details. Comment on ‘Visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture’ by Spagna et al.	15
Surfing brain waves without sinking	15
Time in peripersonal space. Comment on "computational models of peripersonal space representation" by Tommaso Bertoni, Ishan-Singh J. Chauhan, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino	15
Why the memory palace is mightier than the memory pharmacy	14
The second law of thermodynamics, life and Earth‘s planetary machinery revisited	13
Impacts of climate change on vegetation pattern: Mathematical modeling and data analysis	12
The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception	12
Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour	12
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	11
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	10
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	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
Addressing misconceptions on Latent Solution tests	9
From a mathematical science of living systems to biology and economics	9
How many more uses of bricks can we generate? How knowledge is somewhat neglected in a model full of knowledge	9
Visual context drives uncertainty-reduction and novelty-seeking exploration during action understanding	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., &	8
From multi-scale to non-local models	8
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	8
Determinism of formamide-based biogenic prebiotic reactions	8
Editorial Board	8
Control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimming robots	8
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
The hare and the honey: Health care as transformative learning	7
From Parrondo's paradox to collective intelligence	7
Preliminaries to artificial consciousness: A multidimensional heuristic approach	7
Knowledge clustering and the acquisition of creative expertise	7
Species extinction in different time scales	7
Social timing as an active, multisensory, and embodied process. A commentary on “The evolution of social timing” by Verga, Kotz and Ravignani	7

Comment on “Physics-based character animation and human motor control” by J. Llobera & C. Charbonnier	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
Particularly average	7
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
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
Motor invariants in action execution and perception	6
Focusing on relevant data and correcting misconceptions reaffirms the ape ZLS	6
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.	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
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	6
A brigde toward mathematics theory in living systems: the thermostatted kinetic theory method for crowd dynamics	6
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 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
From adaptive networks to expanding state spaces: Comment on “Beyond networks: Toward adaptive models of biological complexity” by Pessoa	5
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.	5
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	5
Comment on “Viscoelastic mechanics of living cells” by Hui Zhou, Ruye Liu, Yizhou Xu, Jierui Fan, Xinyue Liu, Longquan Chen, Qiang Wei	5
Perception and response of skeleton to mechanical stress	5
Persons and their affective experiences. Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The affective pertinentization (APER) model” by salvatore et al.	5
Possible contribution to data-driven primate research: Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Becchio, Pullar, Scaliti, and Panzeri	5
From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability	4
Heritability of white matter in twins: A diffusion neuroimaging review	4
Ant colony optimization: A bibliometric 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
Beyond simple laboratory studies, toward interactive methods	4
The music we march to: Beyond beat, floating intentionality and improvisation	4
Aromatic patterns: Tryptophan aromaticity as a catalyst for the emergence of life and rise of consciousness	4
Consonance and dissonance perception. A critical review of the historical sources, multidisciplinary findings, and main hypotheses	4
Non-invariants may be used for socially-relevant perceptual decisions	4
Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation	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
High-order interaction modeling of tumor-microenvironment crosstalk for tumor growth	4
Neural decoding reliability: Breakthroughs and potential of brain–computer interfaces technologies in the treatment of neurological diseases	4
Prognostic potential of reading art in brain damage and the possible contribution of non-invasive brain stimulation	4
Yes, And	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
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
Information, computation, and causality in living systems	3
WITHDRAWN: Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	3
Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution	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
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	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
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
Motor variability in task-space and body-space	3
Multiple applications of pulsed electric fields are game changer in food industry and biomedicine	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
Beyond task response - A key to the subjective aspects of consciousness	3
Building bidirectional, signed, and weighted interaction network among microbes	3
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	3
Listening to dissonant and atonal music induces psychological tension and anxiety	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
More than one effect in every affect	3
Simulating social dynamics with artificial intelligence	3
Measures, constructs, and constructing measurement: Reply to comments on “Can we really ‘read’ art to see the changing brain?”	3
The path forward for modeling action-oriented cognition as active inference	2
Brain dynamics shape cognition–Spatiotemporal Neuroscience	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
Connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI	2
The importance of tradeoffs in neural and motor variability	2
The body is not there to compute	2
On the right way to crack nuts and farm fruit	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
Multilayer coupled mechanism	2
Some additional pieces in the jigsaw puzzle of innovation and technological culture	2
Editorial Board	2
The toughness, elasticity, color, and consistency of cooperation	2
Simple rules for simple models	2
Creative metacognition in the problem construction process comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	2
Comment on " Protein post-translational modifications and tumor immunity: A pan-cancer perspective"	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
The riddle of TPJ function in language processing	2
Untenable propositions and alternative avenues.	2
Changes in style as a diagnostic medical tool or a way to study creativity in art?	2
Current creative potential or generalization to the natural environment? Brief comments on the featured article	2
Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	2
Weighting and integrating heterogeneous behavioral cues comment on ‘kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour’	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
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

Homo erectus’ slowly broadening Zone of Bounded Surprisals opened the way to technological culture	2
Data-driven mathematical modeling approaches for COVID-19: A survey	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
Living on the edge – practical information geometry for studying the emergence and propagation of life forms	2
The many faces of action	2
No sound evidence supports the notion that we can “read” art	2
White matter, and why twin resemblance can still matter	2
Contextualizing kinematic coding in naturalistic scenarios: Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Becchio, Pullar, Scaliti, and Panzeri	2
COVID-19 epidemic: From data to mathematical models	2
Physical reasoning is the missing link between action goals and kinematics	2
Snakes and ladders in the evolution of language	2
Matches, mismatches, and the experience of supernumerary body parts	2
Can a mathematical model of mass extinctions do without environmental noise?	2
From the free energy principle to a confederation of Bayesian mechanics	2
All quantum systems are strange	2
Editorial Board	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 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
At the crossroad of the search for spontaneous radiation and the Orch OR consciousness theory	2
Cultural evolution in the science of culture and cultural evolution	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
Mapping and measuring the Mind's Eye - Comment on visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture by Spagna et al.	2
Visual sensitivity to biological motion invariants in humans at birth	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
Goldstein's ‘catastrophic reactions’ reinterpreted as neuroaesthetic ‘signatures’	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
A kinetic theory approach for modeling Alzheimer's disease: Insights and challenges	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
Electrical properties of cancer cells: A next generation biophysical therapeutic target	2
Does the free energy principle sleep on it?	2
Reaction-diffusion waves in biology: new trends, recent developments	2
Can we “read” art…at all? A psychometric perspective on the possibility of measuring artwork attributes	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
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
Untangling the structure and function of complex neuronal networks	2
Implications of cell's electrical properties for standard of care in glioblastoma therapy	2
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
Embodiment in flux: Comment on “Informational embodiment: Computational role of information structure in codes and robots” by Alexandre Pitti et al.	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
Integrative sensorimotor coding and the neurophysiology of intent: Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Becchio, Pullar, Scaliti, and Panzeri	1
The calculus of Life: Contingency vs. necessity	1
Cultural mechanics	1
Markov border crossings	1
Thoughts and thinkers: On the complementarity between objects and processes	1
On consensus and cooperation	1
Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psychotherapy	1
Inferential dynamics	1
Game theory and delays in thermostatted models	1
Fine-tuning social timing: From non-human to human animals and back	1
Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation: A comprehensive survey	1
Thoughts, loud and silent. Comment on “The sound of thought: Form matters – The prosody of inner speech” by Kreiner and Eviatar	1
A test run of the free energy principle: All for naught?	1
Informational embodiment: Computational role of information structure in codes and robots	1
Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique	1
Studying naturalistic actions requires research programs and not trade-off decisions in individual studies	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
Remodeling of non-coding RNA regulatory networks: Decoding the pathological mechanisms and new therapeutic paradigms of cardiovascular diseases	1
From seeing X-ray sparks to sparking neural circuits	1
The new frontier of an IOM-based panspermia hypothesis: Perspectives and feasibility	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
Very particular: Comment on “How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?”	1
LLMs provide a potential pathway for the research of complex systems	1
To enhance or not to enhance: A debate about cognitive enhancement from a psychological and neuroscientific perspective	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
A forward look to perspectives	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
Implications of electrical properties of cells for treatment specificity of electric/electromagnetic fields-based therapeutic approaches	1
The complexity of simplification	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
The unbearable hardness of inferring being: Comment on “preliminaries to artificial consciousness” by Evers et al.	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
The oscillatory nature of the motor and perceptive kinematics invariants	1
A technical comment on “A decade of thermostatted kinetic theory models for complex active matter living systems”. New fascinating perspectives of research	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
Editorial Board	1
Physics of collective transport and traffic phenomena in biology: Progress in 20 years	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
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
Multiscale data for parametrising multiscale models	1
Brain anatomy and dynamics: A commentary on “Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics” by Papo and Buldú (2024)	1
Escaping a blind alley: The ZLS as a ‘cultural crucible’?	1
Combinatorial creativity as blind-variation and selective-retention: A definitional update	1
What, precisely, is a Bayesian belief?	1
Cooperation versus social welfare	1
Building models, testing models: Asymmetric roles of SLF III networks?	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
Unlocking the doors of perception: A new era in sensory and consciousness sciences	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
Heterarchy or hierarchy? Insights from a new model of visual imagination	1
Mechanotherapy as an alternative for cancer treatment	1
Multi-scale phenomena behind the transmission of infectious disease	1
An AI researchers' perspective: At the crossroad of LLMs, agent-based modeling, and complex systems	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
What challenges remain after 25 years of the enhancement debate?	1