Physics of Life Reviews

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	220
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”	109
Towards the utilization of LLMs for misinformation modeling and detection	101
Rotating waves and multistability in locomotion models	89
Particular flows and attracting sets	86
Social timing: More than combinatorial probabilities?	75
Language as a means to reduce uncertainty	65
From physics to sentience: Deciphering the semantics of the free-energy principle and evaluating its claims	61
Putting the framework to work: Comment on “a systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Lebuda & Benedek	61
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	59
Going deeper into the feelings in creative metacognition: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	52
A look forward to further developments: Building bridges between mathematics and economics in a multiscale fashion	50
Brain paradox – Timescales matter! Comment on “The paradox of the self-studying brain” by S.Battaglia, P. Servajean & K. Friston	43
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	41
Photobiomodulation effects on cancer cells through modifications of their bioelectric properties	38
Another brick in the wall? Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	34
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Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods	28
Mathematical oncology: A new frontier in cancer biology and clinical decision making	28
Mathematical models for dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systematic review	27
Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems	27
Patterns of neuronal synchrony in higher-order networks	27
Commentary on “ ‘Snakes and ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago”	26
To comment or not to comment, that is the question!	24

Neuromuscular invariants in action execution and perception	22
The structure of biological complexity: Comment on “Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems” by Gosak et al.	22
The vigor law as a kinematic invariant at work in perceptual-cognitive processes	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
From local match/mismatch signals to updating of task-relevant beliefs: The temporo-parietal junction and its embedment in cortical networks	20
Multiscale and multi-physical problems	19
A systematic framework of creative metacognition	18
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The second law of thermodynamics, life and Earth‘s planetary machinery revisited	17
What are the psychic forces present within a psychopathological state? Comment on “Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psychotherapy” by Pietro Sara	17
The devil is in the method details. Comment on ‘Visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture’ by Spagna et al.	17
Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour	16
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	16
The role mathematics can play in physics of life	15
The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception	15
When patterns come to life	14
Transversal aromaticity: Tryptophan as a bridge between molecular patterns and consciousness explained	14
A system sciences approach to consonance/dissonance: From biological constraints to cultural differences	14
Adding a mental health perspective on social timing	12
Physics-based character animation and human motor control	12
Time in Peripersonal Space. Comment on "Computational Models of Peripersonal Space Representation" by Tommaso Bertoni, Ishan-Singh J. Chauhan, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino	11
Impacts of climate change on vegetation pattern: Mathematical modeling and data analysis	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
A natural experiment to understand genetic influences on brain structures. Comment on “Heritability of white matter in twins: A diffusion neuroimaging review” by Giovanni Videtta, Chiara Colli, Letizi	10
Determinism of formamide-based biogenic prebiotic reactions	9
GLMY Homology Theory Meets idopNetwork: Dissecting Soil Microbiota Resilience Under Forest Thinning and Climate Change: Comment on “Topological change of soil microbiota networks for forest resilience	9
Is sharing always caring? Entropy, boundaries and the plurality of psychotherapeutic process: Comment on “Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psycho	9
Preliminaries to artificial consciousness: A multidimensional heuristic approach	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
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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
A contribution to understanding the application of Pulsed Electric Fields in liquid food processing	7
Addressing misconceptions on Latent Solution tests	7
Control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimming robots	7
From a mathematical science of living systems to biology and economics	7
How many more uses of bricks can we generate? How knowledge is somewhat neglected in a model full of knowledge	7
Visual context drives uncertainty-reduction and novelty-seeking exploration during action understanding	7
From Parrondo's paradox to collective intelligence	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	6
Why Paleolithic Rockstars were both enigmatic and sporadic: A comment on: ‘Snakes and Ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago	6
Perception and response of skeleton to mechanical stress	6
A brigde toward mathematics theory in living systems: the thermostatted kinetic theory method for crowd dynamics	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
Motor invariants in action execution and perception	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
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

Particularly average	5
Knowledge clustering and the acquisition of creative expertise	5
The hare and the honey: Health care as transformative learning	5
Creative metacognition and its relation to the conceptualization, assessment, and nurture of creativity: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	5
Species extinction in different time scales	5
The fine-grained temporal dynamics of social timing: a window into sociality of embodied social agents. Comment on “The evolution of social timing” by L. Verga, S. A. Kotz, & A. Ravignani	5
Can major breakthroughs in cancer be achieved through theoretical models?	5
Focusing on relevant data and correcting misconceptions reaffirms the ape ZLS	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
Comment on “Viscoelastic mechanics of living cells” by Hui Zhou, Ruye Liu, Yizhou Xu, Jierui Fan, Xinyue Liu, Longquan Chen, Qiang Wei	4
Possible contribution to data-driven primate research: Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Becchio, Pullar, Scaliti, and Panzeri	4
Prognostic potential of reading art in brain damage and the possible contribution of non-invasive brain stimulation	4
Ant colony optimization: A bibliometric review	4
Heritability of white matter in twins: A diffusion neuroimaging review	4
Leveraging large language models for complex systems analysis: Opportunities, challenges, and future directions: Comment on “LLMs and generative agent-based models for complex systems research” by Y.	4
Non-invariants may be used for socially-relevant perceptual decisions	4
From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability	4
High-order interaction modeling of tumor-microenvironment crosstalk for tumor growth	4
Persons and their affective experiences. Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The affective pertinentization (APER) model” by salvatore et al.	4
Beyond simple laboratory studies, toward interactive methods	4
The music we march to: Beyond beat, floating intentionality and improvisation	3
Consonance and dissonance perception. A critical review of the historical sources, multidisciplinary findings, and main hypotheses	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
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
More than one effect in every affect	3
Building bidirectional, signed, and weighted interaction network among microbes	3
Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation	3
Aromatic patterns: Tryptophan aromaticity as a catalyst for the emergence of life and rise of consciousness	3
Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution	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
Listening to dissonant and atonal music induces psychological tension and anxiety	3
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	3
Yes, And	3
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
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
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
WITHDRAWN: Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	3
Electrical properties of cancer cells: A next generation biophysical therapeutic target	2
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Living on the edge – practical information geometry for studying the emergence and propagation of life forms	2
Untenable propositions and alternative avenues.	2
Matches, mismatches, and the experience of supernumerary body parts	2
Simulating social dynamics with artificial intelligence	2
Less is more: Strangeness affords flexibility – A commentary on “Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things” by Friston, Da Costa, Sakthivadivel, Heins, Pavliotis, Ramstead, and Parr	2
Beyond task response - A key to the subjective aspects of consciousness	2
Multiple applications of pulsed electric fields are game changer in food industry and biomedicine	2
No sound evidence supports the notion that we can “read” art	2
Information, computation, and causality in living systems	2
Contextualizing kinematic coding in naturalistic scenarios: Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Becchio, Pullar, Scaliti, and Panzeri	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
All quantum systems are strange	2
The riddle of TPJ function in language processing	2
Can we “read” art…at all? A psychometric perspective on the possibility of measuring artwork attributes	2
Creative metacognition in the problem construction process comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	2
The path forward for modeling action-oriented cognition as active inference	2
Cancer modelling as fertile ground for new mathematical challenges	2
From the free energy principle to a confederation of Bayesian mechanics	2
Homo erectus’ slowly broadening Zone of Bounded Surprisals opened the way to technological culture	2
Why predicting secreted effectors and what they do is important	2
Multilayer coupled mechanism	2
Weighting and integrating heterogeneous behavioral cues comment on ‘kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour’	2
Prestimulus alpha phase, not only power, modulates conscious perception. Comment on “Beyond task response—Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness” by G. Northoff, F. Zilio & J. Z	2
Physical reasoning is the missing link between action goals and kinematics	2
Motor variability in task-space and body-space	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 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
Brain dynamics shape cognition–Spatiotemporal Neuroscience	2
Changes in style as a diagnostic medical tool or a way to study creativity in art?	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
Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	2
The importance of tradeoffs in neural and motor variability	2
Untangling the structure and function of complex neuronal networks	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
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
Goldstein's ‘catastrophic reactions’ reinterpreted as neuroaesthetic ‘signatures’	2
Can a mathematical model of mass extinctions do without environmental noise?	2
At the crossroad of the search for spontaneous radiation and the Orch OR consciousness theory	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
Measures, constructs, and constructing measurement: Reply to comments on “Can we really ‘read’ art to see the changing brain?”	2
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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
Reaction-diffusion waves in biology: new trends, recent developments	2
Does the free energy principle sleep on it?	2
Implications of cell's electrical properties for standard of care in glioblastoma therapy	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
Cultural evolution in the science of culture and cultural evolution	2
Spatial pattern formation, community assembly and resilience	2
Current creative potential or generalization to the natural environment? Brief comments on the featured article	2
Investigating and forecasting infectious disease dynamics using epidemiological and molecular surveillance data	1
Frequency-domain integration in attention networks: Comment on "Dark brain energy: Toward an integrative model of spontaneous slow oscillations" by Gong & Zuo	1
Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psychotherapy	1
How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?	1
Mechanotherapy as an alternative for cancer treatment	1
Multi-scale phenomena behind the transmission of infectious disease	1
Studying naturalistic actions requires research programs and not trade-off decisions in individual studies	1
Implications of electrical properties of cells for treatment specificity of electric/electromagnetic fields-based therapeutic approaches	1
The calculus of Life: Contingency vs. necessity	1
Building models, testing models: Asymmetric roles of SLF III networks?	1
The new frontier of an IOM-based panspermia hypothesis: Perspectives and feasibility	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
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
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
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
Markov border crossings	1
On consensus and cooperation	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
Towards a strange interpretation of the Free Energy Principle	1
Combinatorial creativity as blind-variation and selective-retention: A definitional update	1
To enhance or not to enhance: A debate about cognitive enhancement from a psychological and neuroscientific perspective	1
A novel recipe for prebiotic systems chemistry arising from autocatalytic relationships	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
Nonlocal models in biology and life sciences: Sources, developments, and applications	1
Spatiotemporal dynamics of brain activity in cognition and consciousness: Comment on “Beyond task responsePre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness” by Northoff, Zilio, and Zhang	1
Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation: A comprehensive survey	1
Trick or treat	1
Fostering mathematical models of slow spontaneous oscillations in the human brain: Comment on “dark brain energy: toward an integrative model of spontaneous slow oscillations” by Zhu-Qing Gong and Xi-	1
Physics of collective transport and traffic phenomena in biology: Progress in 20 years	1
Whiten and the ZLS: Comment on “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten	1
Cultural mechanics	1
The oscillatory nature of the motor and perceptive kinematics invariants	1
Zones of proximal cognitive assimilation in the transmission of culture	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
A technical comment on “A decade of thermostatted kinetic theory models for complex active matter living systems”. New fascinating perspectives of research	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
Towards creating a mechanistic predictive theory of self-organized vegetation patterns	1
Very particular: Comment on “How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?”	1
Can we really ‘read’ art to see the changing brain? A review and empirical assessment of clinical case reports and published artworks for systematic evidence of quality and style changes linked to dam	1
Fine-tuning social timing: From non-human to human animals and back	1
PLRev at 20: Honoring Leonid Perlovsky and celebrating interdisciplinary science	1
Embodiment in flux: Comment on “Informational embodiment: Computational role of information structure in codes and robots” by Alexandre Pitti et al.	1
Left and right temporal-parietal junctions (TPJs) as “match/mismatch” hedonic machines: A unifying account of TPJ function	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
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 test run of the free energy principle: All for naught?	1
A forward look to perspectives	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
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
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
Brain anatomy and dynamics: A commentary on “Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics” by Papo and Buldú (2024)	1
The paradox of the self-studying brain	1
Constrained confabulation: Comment on “The paradox of the self-studying brain” by Battaglia, Servajean, and Friston	1
Neuromodulatory system in network science	1
How can we relax the cost of reward and punishment?	1
Evolutionary leap: Prioritizing Bayesian cognition over socio-cultural transmission	1
Editorial Board	1
Data-rich modeling helps answer increasingly complex questions on variant and disease interactions	1
Plant-soil feedback as a driver of spatial structure in ecosystems	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
Patterns and particles	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
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
From affective landscape to social meaning: The role of vitality forms in the APER model. Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The Affective Pertinentization (APER) model” by Salvatore et al	1
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
Making the Private Public: External Grounding In Inner States	1
Escaping a blind alley: The ZLS as a ‘cultural crucible’?	1
What, precisely, is a Bayesian belief?	1
Multiscale data for parametrising multiscale models	1
Bounding surprisal is only part of the story…Reply to comments on “To copy or not to copy? That is the question! From chimpanzees to the foundation of human technological culture”	1
From abstract networks to biological realities	1
Inferential dynamics	1
From seeing X-ray sparks to sparking neural circuits	1
Heterarchy or hierarchy? Insights from a new model of visual imagination	1
The complexity of simplification	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
Thoughts, loud and silent. Comment on “The sound of thought: Form matters – The prosody of inner speech” by Kreiner and Eviatar	1
Thoughts and thinkers: On the complementarity between objects and processes	1
The mechanics of evolution: Phylogeny, ontogeny, and adaptive priors	1
Informational embodiment: Computational role of information structure in codes and robots	1
Game theory and delays in thermostatted models	1
The genotype concept and language evolution: Comment on “Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution” by Balthasar Bickel, Anne-Lise Giraud, Klaus Zuberb..hler, Carel P. van Schaik	1
Topological change of soil microbiota networks for forest resilience under global warming	1
Vegetation patterning and biodiversity of plant communities	1
An exciting path ahead	1
Exploring biological mechanisms of lifestyle and environmental factors in humans: Current challenges and future directions. Invited comment on: “Environmental factors and their impact on chronic pain	1
Unlocking the doors of perception: A new era in sensory and consciousness sciences	1