Physics of Life Reviews

Article	Citations
Reputation and reciprocity	87
Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems	70
The sense of should: A biologically-based framework for modeling social pressure	64
Mathematical models for dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systematic review	61
From genotypes to organisms: State-of-the-art and perspectives of a cornerstone in evolutionary dynamics	57
The art of adapting to extreme environments: The model system Pseudoalteromonas	54
The Markov blanket trick: On the scope of the free energy principle and active inference	49
How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?	47
Dynamic and thermodynamic models of adaptation	42
Impacts of climate change on vegetation pattern: Mathematical modeling and data analysis	42
A systematic framework of creative metacognition	41
Laws of nature that define biological action and perception	41
Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition	40
Improving cancer treatments via dynamical biophysical models	39
Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things	33
Mineral self-organization on a lifeless planet	29
An elegant nano-injection machinery for sabotaging the host: Role of Type III secretion system in virulence of different human and animal pathogenic bacteria	28
Left and right temporal-parietal junctions (TPJs) as “match/mismatch” hedonic machines: A unifying account of TPJ function	27
Consonance and dissonance perception. A critical review of the historical sources, multidisciplinary findings, and main hypotheses	26
Beyond simple laboratory studies: Developing sophisticated models to study rich behavior	23
Prebiotic chemistry and origins of life research with atomistic computer simulations	23
Insoluble organic matter in chondrites: Archetypal melanin-like PAH-based multifunctionality at the origin of life?	23
Belowground feedbacks as drivers of spatial self-organization and community assembly	22
Creativity, information, and consciousness: The information dynamics of thinking	22
The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation	21

Motor invariants in action execution and perception	21
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	20
Unified representation of Life's basic properties by a 3-species Stochastic Cubic Autocatalytic Reaction-Diffusion system of equations	18
The distinguishing electrical properties of cancer cells	17
To copy or not to copy? That is the question! From chimpanzees to the foundation of human technological culture	16
Knowledge gaps and missing links in understanding mass extinctions: Can mathematical modeling help?	16
Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability	16
Beyond task response—Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness	15
Visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture	14
What is life? Active particles tools towards behavioral dynamics in social-biology and economics	14
Plant-soil feedback as a driver of spatial structure in ecosystems	13
An active inference model of hierarchical action understanding, learning and imitation	13
Mechanotransduction in tumor dynamics modeling	13
Structure and function in artificial, zebrafish and human neural networks	13
The evolution of social timing	12
Collective fluctuation implies imminent state transition	9
Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods	9
‘Snakes and ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago	8
Control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimming robots	7
‘Phase transitions’ in bacteria – From structural transitions in free living bacteria to phenotypic transitions in bacteria within biofilms	6
The interplay between biochemical mediators and mechanotransduction in chondrocytes: Unravelling the differential responses in primary knee osteoarthritis	6
Combining dynamic modeling with machine learning can be the key for the integration of mathematical and clinical oncology	6
Aromatic patterns: Tryptophan aromaticity as a catalyst for the emergence of life and rise of consciousness	6
Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation: A comprehensive survey	6
Environmental factors and their impact on chronic pain development and maintenance	6
Critical transition across the Waddington landscape as an interpretative model	5
Sparse coupling and Markov blankets	5
Chimpanzee culture in context	5
At the crossroad of the search for spontaneous radiation and the Orch OR consciousness theory	5
Escaping a blind alley: The ZLS as a ‘cultural crucible’?	5
Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics	5
Living on the edge – practical information geometry for studying the emergence and propagation of life forms	5
Boundary versus enabling conditions for the origins of life	5
Mentalising allostasis: The sense that I should eat	4
Spatial pattern formation, community assembly and resilience	4
Computational creativity beyond machine learning	4
Building models, testing models: Asymmetric roles of SLF III networks?	4
Perception and response of skeleton to mechanical stress	4
It is useful to analyze correlation graphs	4
Can a mathematical model of mass extinctions do without environmental noise?	4
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”	4
Inferential dynamics	4
Focusing on relevant data and correcting misconceptions reaffirms the ape ZLS	4
Thresholds, bifurcation and chaos in biological phenomena	4
Evolution and irreversibility: Two distinct phenomena and their distinct laws of nature	4
From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability	4
Physics-based character animation and human motor control	3
The inner speech of the IDyOT	3
Laws of nature in action, perception and thinking	3
Heritability of white matter in twins: A diffusion neuroimaging review	3

Connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI	3
A new perspective on cooperation through the lens of Parrondo's paradox	3
Physical reasoning is the missing link between action goals and kinematics	3
Nuancing the heterarchical theory of visual mental imagery	3
Synchronization, free energy and the embryogenesis of the cortex	3
The statistical mechanics of life	3
Cultural evolution in the science of culture and cultural evolution	3
Computational models and neural bases of statistical learning in music and language	3
Variational free energy, individual fitness, and population dynamics under acute stress	3
Very particular: Comment on “How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?”	3
Prescriptive, descriptive or predictive models: What approach should be taken when empirical data is limited? Reply to comments on “Mathematical models for Dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systema	3
Network models of biological adaptation at the molecular scale	3
Cognition coming about: Self-organisation and free-energy	3
Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	2
Cancer modelling as fertile ground for new mathematical challenges	2
Towards predictive neural network dynamical theory	2
What kind of explanation is the constructing and coasting strategy?	2
Untenable propositions and alternative avenues.	2
Concept of swarming and synchrony in aquatic animal movements	2
An atomistic approach to prebiotic chemistry: A tool to overcome the limits of laboratory simulations	2
On the right way to crack nuts and farm fruit	2
The epistemic value of conformity	2
The oscillatory nature of the motor and perceptive kinematics invariants	2
Rotating waves and multistability in locomotion models	2
Toward multiscale derivation of behavioral dynamics	2
Information-theoretic characterization of the complete genotype-phenotype map of a complex pre-biotic world	2
Mechanisms underlying the social effects of music: Comment on “Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability”	2
Cancer's unique bioelectric properties: From cells to body-wide networks	2
Situating and extending the sense of should	2
Addressing misconceptions on Latent Solution tests	2
How can we relax the cost of reward and punishment?	2
Changes in style as a diagnostic medical tool or a way to study creativity in art?	2
Adaptation through the lens of single-cell multi-omics data	2
Functional asymmetry and the consequences of action	2
Studying naturalistic actions requires research programs and not trade-off decisions in individual studies	2
Origins, transitions, and traces of life	2
Delayed feedback control of synchronization patterns	2
Beyond ‘cold’ creative metacognition: Toward a more integrated framework	2
A predictive model of attention	2
Combining inter-areal, mesoscopic, and neurodynamic models of cortical function	2
Regarding flows under the free energy principle	2
Yes, And	2
How to distinguish between referent configuration and internal models hypotheses of motor control?	2
Ensemble of correlation, parenclitic and synolitic graphs as a tool to detect universal changes in complex biological systems	2
Vocal similarity theory and the biology of musical tonality	2
PET brain imaging in neurological disorders	2
The chiral mind: The role of symmetry in the growth of new hierarchical layers in cognition	2
The problem with solutions: A commentary of “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten	2
Beyond connectionism: A neuronal dance of ephaptic and synaptic interactions	2
Energy dissipation and storage in adaptation and homeostasis	2
How should the political animals of the 21st century feel?	2
The riddle of TPJ function in language processing	2
What art can tell us about the human brain, in health and disease	2
Escaping anthropocentrism in the study of non-human culture: Comment on “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten	2
Listening to dissonant and atonal music induces psychological tension and anxiety	2
The nonequilibrium boundaries of living systems	2
A test run of the free energy principle: All for naught?	2
Some minimal notes on notation and minima	2
Comment on “The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation”	2
Going deeper into the feelings in creative metacognition: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	2
The rise of computer modeling in prebiotic chemistry	2
Aging, Inflammaging and Adaptation	2
What animal cultures may beget: Comment on “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten	2
Computational investigation of the primordial soup	2
From local match/mismatch signals to updating of task-relevant beliefs: The temporo-parietal junction and its embedment in cortical networks	1
Data-rich modeling helps answer increasingly complex questions on variant and disease interactions	1
Markov border crossings	1
Crystals and the debates on the nature, recognition and origin of life	1
Towards creating a mechanistic predictive theory of self-organized vegetation patterns	1
A forward look to perspectives	1
Computational modeling aids in linking structure, dynamics, and function of neural systems	1
The role of synchronization in neural systems and their consequence to the neural behavior	1
Is rich behavior the solution or just a (relevant) piece of the puzzle?: Comment on “Beyond simple laboratory studies: Developing sophisticated models to study rich behavior” by Maselli, Gordon, Eluch	1
The calculus of Life: Contingency vs. necessity	1
Particular flows and attracting sets	1
Dynamics and stability of task-specific manifolds	1
Calls of the wild: Exploring the evolutionary roots of consonance and dissonance	1
Neuromuscular invariants in action execution and perception	1
A system sciences approach to consonance/dissonance: From biological constraints to cultural differences	1
Addressing market regime transitions with the tools of behavioral swarms and kinetic theory	1

From the free energy principle to a confederation of Bayesian mechanics	1
Patterns and particles	1
Pushing the boundaries of a physical approach for the study of sensorimotor control	1
From computer vision to epilepsy, a comment on “The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation”	1
Goldstein's ‘catastrophic reactions’ reinterpreted as neuroaesthetic ‘signatures’	1
Mathematical oncology: A new frontier in cancer biology and clinical decision making	1
Similarities between terrestrial planets at the time life appeared on Earth	1
Multilayer coupled mechanism	1
Movement control mechanism of underwater swimmers via resonance entrainment of central pattern generators Comment on “Control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimmi	1
Additional aspects to the tight-loose in music model	1
Evolutionary leap: Prioritizing Bayesian cognition over socio-cultural transmission	1
Motor-invariants for action understanding in video	1
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	1
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	1
Musical form: A challenge for models of musical cognition	1
Are neurodegenerative disorders causing characteristic changes in visual artwork?	1
Creative metacognition: A much needed bridge between meta-reasoning and creativity	1
Co-constructing Markov blankets: Tricky solutions	1
The structure of biological complexity: Comment on “Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems” by Gosak et al.	1
Prognostic potential of reading art in brain damage and the possible contribution of non-invasive brain stimulation	1
Behavioral and game-theoretic modeling of dengue epidemic: Comment on “Mathematical models for dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systematic review” by M. Aguiar et al.	1
The missing link among the functions of the temporo-parietal junction	1
Epidemic models and their use	1
Data-driven theory formulation or theory-driven data interpretation?	1
Some aspects of adaptation and evolution	1
Multiscale and multi-physical problems	1
A look forward to further developments: Building bridges between mathematics and economics in a multiscale fashion	1
Beyond the metabolic costs of prediction error	1
Theoretical origins	1
From animal biology to simulated models and back: Comment on “control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimming robots” by Gordleeva et al.	1
Are TPJs conflict detectors or solvers?	1
Time and consciousness	1
Commentary on Wright and Bourke “The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation”	1
Studying the hierarchy of actions from motor primitives	1
A new concept of brain lateralization from the function of the temporo-parietal junctions: Comment on “Left and right temporal-parietal junctions (TPJs) as “match/mismatch” hedonic machines: A unifyin	1
Embodied playfulness in musical synchrony: Comment on “musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability” by Tal-Chen Rabinowitch	1
Viewing mass extinctions through the lens of mathematical modeling	1
Blankets at birth: Transitional objects	1
Exercise science perspective	1
Matches, mismatches, and the experience of supernumerary body parts	1
System-specificity of genotype-phenotype map structure	1
Mineral self-organized structures in pre-biotic chemistry	1
Whiten and the ZLS: Comment on “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten	1
A decade of thermostatted kinetic theory models for complex active matter living systems	1
Global Workspace Theory, LIDA and IDyOT	1
Theoretical physics unified model building meets biology: Comment on “Unified representation of life's basic properties by a 3-species stochastic cubic autocatalytic reaction-diffusion system of equat	1
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.	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
The role mathematics can play in physics of life	1
The music we march to: Beyond beat, floating intentionality and improvisation	1
What, precisely, is a Bayesian belief?	1
Creative metacognition in the problem construction process comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	1
From tasks to models of visual mental imagery: Comment on “Visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture” by Spagna et al.	1
Towards data-driven, next-generation understanding of network physiology	1
Riders on a storm – The evaluation and control of creative processes A comment on: “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Izabela Lebuda and Mathias Benedek	1
Functional properties of morphological networks. Comment on “Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems” by Marko Gosak et al.	1
Multiscale data for parametrising multiscale models	1
Dealing with fragments of past biospheres	1
The ultimate trick?	1
One person's modus ponens…	1
Art as a window to altered perception? – A possible understanding of neurodegenerative diseases through the philosophy of Konrad Fiedler	1
From a free energy principle to a free energy model?	1
Reward influences cortical representations	1
From abstract networks to biological realities	1
Sociality and Timing: Correlation or Causation? Comment on ‘The evolution of social timing’ by Verga L., Kotz S. & Ravignani A.	1
No sound evidence supports the notion that we can “read” art	1
On the significance of the electrostatic differences between cancer and normal cells	1
Toward a moral psychology untethered from long-term cooperation	1
Creativity, art and brain	1
The vigor law as a kinematic invariant at work in perceptual-cognitive processes	1
Interstellar chemical reactions toward the synthesis of the life's building blocks	1
Photobiomodulation effects on cancer cells through modifications of their bioelectric properties	1
Some features on methodology of dengue modelling linked to data	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
Does the free energy principle sleep on it?	1
Searching for unifying laws of general adaptation syndrome	1
Parametric control of limb mechanics is accomplished in the spinal cord by parallel-distributed processing	1
Climatic conditions drive vegetation patterns: A theoretical and practical evidence	1
Genotype-phenotype maps and the predictability of evolution	1
Formic acid, the precursor of formamide, from serpentinization	1
Explaining the ‘gigantic gulf’: ‘Sorta’ cultures, cultural selection and compositionality	1
Putting the framework to work: Comment on “a systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Lebuda & Benedek	1
Challenges in astrochemistry: The spectroscopic point of view	1
The Zone of Bounded Surprisal: Raising further questions	1
Less is more: Strangeness affords flexibility – A commentary on “Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things” by Friston, Da Costa, Sakthivadivel, Heins, Pavliotis, Ramstead, and Parr	1
Interpersonal synchrony implies simultaneity, musical improvisation requires rules. Comment on “Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability” by Tal-Chen Rabinowitch	1
Current creative potential or generalization to the natural environment? Brief comments on the featured article	1
A comment on “The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation”	1
Psychocultural histories and explanatory gaps	1
Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution	1
How many more uses of bricks can we generate? How knowledge is somewhat neglected in a model full of knowledge	1
Reply to comments on “Prebiotic chemistry and origins of life research with atomistic computer simulations”	1
Non-invariants may be used for socially-relevant perceptual decisions	1
Another brick in the wall? Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	1
Can we “read” art…at all? A psychometric perspective on the possibility of measuring artwork attributes	1