Physics of Life Reviews

Article	Citations
Aging, Inflammaging and Adaptation	160
Situating and extending the sense of should	87
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	83
Particular flows and attracting sets	70
Language as a means to reduce uncertainty	66
Social timing: More than combinatorial probabilities?	61
Going deeper into the feelings in creative metacognition: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	57
Putting the framework to work: Comment on “a systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Lebuda & Benedek	55
Editorial Board	55
Rotating waves and multistability in locomotion models	53
A look forward to further developments: Building bridges between mathematics and economics in a multiscale fashion	50
From physics to sentience: Deciphering the semantics of the free-energy principle and evaluating its claims	49
Editorial Board	45
Photobiomodulation effects on cancer cells through modifications of their bioelectric properties	42
Insoluble organic matter in chondrites: Archetypal melanin-like PAH-based multifunctionality at the origin of life?	39
Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods	34
Another brick in the wall? Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	30
Editorial Board	29
Mathematical oncology: A new frontier in cancer biology and clinical decision making	27
Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems	26
Patterns of neuronal synchrony in higher-order networks	23
Mathematical models for dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systematic review	22
A systematic framework of creative metacognition	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	21
Commentary on “ ‘Snakes and ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago”	21

From local match/mismatch signals to updating of task-relevant beliefs: The temporo-parietal junction and its embedment in cortical networks	18
Parametric control of limb mechanics is accomplished in the spinal cord by parallel-distributed processing	18
The structure of biological complexity: Comment on “Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems” by Gosak et al.	18
Neuromuscular invariants in action execution and perception	17
To comment or not to comment, that is the question!	16
The vigor law as a kinematic invariant at work in perceptual-cognitive processes	16
Multiscale and multi-physical problems	16
Transversal aromaticity: Tryptophan as a bridge between molecular patterns and consciousness explained	15
A system sciences approach to consonance/dissonance: From biological constraints to cultural differences	15
Adding a mental health perspective on social timing	15
The devil is in the method details. Comment on ‘Visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture’ by Spagna et al.	15
The second law of thermodynamics, life and Earth‘s planetary machinery revisited	14
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	12
When patterns come to life	10
Editorial Board	10
The role mathematics can play in physics of life	10
The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception	9
Physics-based character animation and human motor control	9
Social timing as an active, multisensory, and embodied process. A commentary on “The evolution of social timing” by Verga, Kotz and Ravignani	8
Impacts of climate change on vegetation pattern: Mathematical modeling and data analysis	8
From a mathematical science of living systems to biology and economics	8
Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour	8
How many more uses of bricks can we generate? How knowledge is somewhat neglected in a model full of knowledge	7
Addressing misconceptions on Latent Solution tests	7
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	7
A contribution to understanding the application of Pulsed Electric Fields in liquid food processing	7
Visual context drives uncertainty-reduction and novelty-seeking exploration during action understanding	6
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	6
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., &	6
Particularly average	6
Preliminaries to artificial consciousness: A multidimensional heuristic approach	6
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	6
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	6
The hare and the honey: Health care as transformative learning	6
Control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimming robots	6
Determinism of formamide-based biogenic prebiotic reactions	6
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	6
Can major breakthroughs in cancer be achieved through theoretical models?	6
Species extinction in different time scales	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	5
Motor invariants in action execution and perception	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
From Parrondo's paradox to collective intelligence	5
Comment on “Physics-based character animation and human motor control” by J. Llobera & C. Charbonnier	5
Perception and response of skeleton to mechanical stress	5
Knowledge clustering and the acquisition of creative expertise	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
A meta-perspective on the creative metacognition framework. Reply to comments on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition”	5
A brigde toward mathematics theory in living systems: the thermostatted kinetic theory method for crowd dynamics	5
The music we march to: Beyond beat, floating intentionality and improvisation	4

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.	4
Non-invariants may be used for socially-relevant perceptual decisions	4
Aromatic patterns: Tryptophan aromaticity as a catalyst for the emergence of life and rise of consciousness	4
Heritability of white matter in twins: A diffusion neuroimaging review	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
Focusing on relevant data and correcting misconceptions reaffirms the ape ZLS	4
Beyond simple laboratory studies, toward interactive methods	4
Prognostic potential of reading art in brain damage and the possible contribution of non-invasive brain stimulation	4
Yes, And	3
Ant colony optimization: A bibliometric review	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
Measures, constructs, and constructing measurement: Reply to comments on “Can we really ‘read’ art to see the changing brain?”	3
Consonance and dissonance perception. A critical review of the historical sources, multidisciplinary findings, and main hypotheses	3
Persons and their affective experiences. Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The affective pertinentization (APER) model” by salvatore et al.	3
Building bidirectional, signed, and weighted interaction network among microbes	3
Listening to dissonant and atonal music induces psychological tension and anxiety	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
Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation	3
From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability	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
Information, computation, and causality in living systems	3
Editorial Board	2
Electrical properties of cancer cells: A next generation biophysical therapeutic target	2
Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution	2
All quantum systems are strange	2
Multilayer coupled mechanism	2
Editorial Board	2
Does the free energy principle sleep on it?	2
Data-driven mathematical modeling approaches for COVID-19: A survey	2
Connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI	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
Creative metacognition in the problem construction process comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. 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
The importance of tradeoffs in neural and motor variability	2
Reaction-diffusion waves in biology: new trends, recent developments	2
Beyond task response - A key to the subjective aspects of consciousness	2
Physical reasoning is the missing link between action goals and kinematics	2
The path forward for modeling action-oriented cognition as active inference	2
Homo erectus’ slowly broadening Zone of Bounded Surprisals opened the way to technological culture	2
Current creative potential or generalization to the natural environment? Brief comments on the featured article	2
Implications of cell's electrical properties for standard of care in glioblastoma therapy	2
More than one effect in every affect	2
WITHDRAWN: Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	2
The riddle of TPJ function in language processing	2
Visual sensitivity to biological motion invariants in humans at birth	2
Action and perception manifolds have gradients that may play a role in learning	2
Cultural evolution in the science of culture and cultural evolution	2
Matches, mismatches, and the experience of supernumerary body parts	2
Cancer modelling as fertile ground for new mathematical challenges	2
Dynamics and stability of task-specific manifolds	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
Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	2
Untenable propositions and alternative avenues.	2
Can we “read” art…at all? A psychometric perspective on the possibility of measuring artwork attributes	2
Why predicting secreted effectors and what they do is important	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
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
Changes in style as a diagnostic medical tool or a way to study creativity in art?	2
Motor variability in task-space and body-space	2
From the free energy principle to a confederation of Bayesian mechanics	2
No sound evidence supports the notion that we can “read” art	2
Some additional pieces in the jigsaw puzzle of innovation and technological culture	2
On the right way to crack nuts and farm fruit	2
Goldstein's ‘catastrophic reactions’ reinterpreted as neuroaesthetic ‘signatures’	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
Editorial Board	2
Spatial pattern formation, community assembly and resilience	2
Can a mathematical model of mass extinctions do without environmental noise?	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
Living on the edge – practical information geometry for studying the emergence and propagation of life forms	2
Untangling the structure and function of complex neuronal networks	2
At the crossroad of the search for spontaneous radiation and the Orch OR consciousness theory	2
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
Addressing market regime transitions with the tools of behavioral swarms and kinetic theory	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
Blankets at birth: Transitional objects	1
Pushing the boundaries of a physical approach for the study of sensorimotor control	1
Invited Review for 20th Anniversary Special Issue of PLRev “AI for Mechanomedicine”	1
Unlocking the doors of perception: A new era in sensory and consciousness sciences	1

Brain anatomy and dynamics: A commentary on “Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics” by Papo and Buldú (2024)	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
Implications of electrical properties of cells for treatment specificity of electric/electromagnetic fields-based therapeutic approaches	1
Chimpanzee culture in context	1
A technical comment on “A decade of thermostatted kinetic theory models for complex active matter living systems”. New fascinating perspectives of research	1
One person's modus ponens…	1
Snakes and ladders in the evolution of language	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
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
What, precisely, is a Bayesian belief?	1
White matter, and why twin resemblance can still matter	1
Whiten and the ZLS: Comment on “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten	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 test run of the free energy principle: All for naught?	1
Towards creating a mechanistic predictive theory of self-organized vegetation patterns	1
The search for universality in evolutionary landscapes	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
Game theory and delays in thermostatted models	1
The strangest particles in the world	1
The calculus of Life: Contingency vs. necessity	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
Investigating and forecasting infectious disease dynamics using epidemiological and molecular surveillance data	1
Integration of mathematical modeling of vegetation patterns with data and climate changes	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
Calls of the wild: Exploring the evolutionary roots of consonance and dissonance	1
Inferential dynamics	1
System-specificity of genotype-phenotype map structure	1
Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things	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
Creativity, art and brain	1
Multi-scale phenomena behind the transmission of infectious disease	1
Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psychotherapy	1
Multiscale and multi-physical problems	1
Co-constructing Markov blankets: Tricky solutions	1
Markov border crossings	1
Mapping and measuring the Mind's Eye - Comment on visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture by Spagna et al.	1
Neuromodulatory system in network science	1
The posture-based motion planning model from cognitive psychology may prove useful for physics-based character animation	1
Fine-tuning social timing: From non-human to human animals and back	1
Trick or treat	1
Zones of proximal cognitive assimilation in the transmission of culture	1
Insoluble organic matter - an “organic” cradle of life	1
COVID-19 epidemic: From data to mathematical models	1
Thoughts, loud and silent. Comment on “The sound of thought: Form matters – The prosody of inner speech” by Kreiner and Eviatar	1
Building models, testing models: Asymmetric roles of SLF III networks?	1
Heterarchy or hierarchy? Insights from a new model of visual imagination	1
From abstract networks to biological realities	1
Combinatorial creativity as blind-variation and selective-retention: A definitional update	1
Left and right temporal-parietal junctions (TPJs) as “match/mismatch” hedonic machines: A unifying account of TPJ function	1
The many faces of action	1
Studying naturalistic actions requires research programs and not trade-off decisions in individual studies	1
Complexity in structural and functional brain networks. Comment on “Structure and function in artificial, zebrafish and human neural networks” by Ji et al.	1
Multiscale data for parametrising multiscale models	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
Some features on methodology of dengue modelling linked to data	1
Interstellar chemical reactions toward the synthesis of the life's building blocks	1
A forward look to perspectives	1
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	1
Visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture	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
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
What do the pre-stimulus brain-process markers really mean vis-à-vis the NCC?: A commentary on „Beyond task response–Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness“ by Northoff, Zilio, and	1
Generative models of complex behavior: A behavioral Turing test. Comment on “beyond simple laboratory studies: Developing sophisticated models to study rich behavior” by Maselli, Gordon, Eluchans, Lan	1
Long-living transients in ecological models: Recent progress, new challenges, and open questions	1
Thoughts and thinkers: On the complementarity between objects and processes	1
The ultimate trick?	1
The missing link among the functions of the temporo-parietal junction	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
A novel recipe for prebiotic systems chemistry arising from autocatalytic relationships	1
Evolutionary leap: Prioritizing Bayesian cognition over socio-cultural transmission	1
Cultural mechanics	1
Data-rich modeling helps answer increasingly complex questions on variant and disease interactions	1
Patterns and particles	1
How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?	1
The mechanics of evolution: Phylogeny, ontogeny, and adaptive priors	1
Meta-control and navigating creative trade-offs: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Lebuda and Benedek	1
Optimality and stability of human behavior	1
Plant-soil feedback as a driver of spatial structure in ecosystems	1
The toughness, elasticity, color, and consistency of cooperation	1
PLRev at 20: Honoring Leonid Perlovsky and celebrating interdisciplinary science	1
Physics of collective transport and traffic phenomena in biology: Progress in 20 years	1
Towards a strange interpretation of the Free Energy Principle	1
Very particular: Comment on “How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?”	1
Mechanotherapy as an alternative for cancer treatment	1
Escaping a blind alley: The ZLS as a ‘cultural crucible’?	1
How can we relax the cost of reward and punishment?	1
The new frontier of an IOM-based panspermia hypothesis: Perspectives and feasibility	1
The complexity of simplification	1
The paradox of the self-studying brain	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
MUSIC SELF-PROJECTION IN A MINOR MODE	1
Emergence of Life-like properties from nonlinear spatial kinetics	1
Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics	1
On consensus and cooperation	1
Editorial Board	1