Physics of Life Reviews

Article	Citations
Aging, Inflammaging and Adaptation	198
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	98
Particular flows and attracting sets	97
Language as a means to reduce uncertainty	79
Social timing: More than combinatorial probabilities?	78
Editorial Board	76
Putting the framework to work: Comment on “a systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Lebuda & Benedek	68
Going deeper into the feelings in creative metacognition: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	59
A look forward to further developments: Building bridges between mathematics and economics in a multiscale fashion	59
From physics to sentience: Deciphering the semantics of the free-energy principle and evaluating its claims	58
Rotating waves and multistability in locomotion models	57
Towards the utilization of LLMs for misinformation modeling and detection	51
From pre-stimulus activity to the contents of consciousness – A spatiotemporal view: Reply to comments on “Beyond task response-Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness”	46
Editorial Board	40
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	39
Brain paradox – Timescales matter! Comment on “The paradox of the self-studying brain” by S.Battaglia, P. Servajean & K. Friston	37
Editorial Board	28
Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods	26
Photobiomodulation effects on cancer cells through modifications of their bioelectric properties	26
Mathematical oncology: A new frontier in cancer biology and clinical decision making	26
Patterns of neuronal synchrony in higher-order networks	25
Mathematical models for dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systematic review	25
Another brick in the wall? Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	25
Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems	23
The vigor law as a kinematic invariant at work in perceptual-cognitive processes	22

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	21
Neuromuscular invariants in action execution and perception	20
The structure of biological complexity: Comment on “Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems” by Gosak et al.	20
To comment or not to comment, that is the question!	19
Multiscale and multi-physical problems	17
When patterns come to life	17
A systematic framework of creative metacognition	17
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	17
Physics-based character animation and human motor control	16
Editorial Board	16
The role mathematics can play in physics of life	16
Transversal aromaticity: Tryptophan as a bridge between molecular patterns and consciousness explained	15
Adding a mental health perspective on social timing	15
A system sciences approach to consonance/dissonance: From biological constraints to cultural differences	15
The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception	15
The devil is in the method details. Comment on ‘Visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture’ by Spagna et al.	14
The second law of thermodynamics, life and Earth‘s planetary machinery revisited	13
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	12
Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour	12
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
Impacts of climate change on vegetation pattern: Mathematical modeling and data analysis	11
From a mathematical science of living systems to biology and economics	11
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
Bridging nonlinear dynamics and physiology: Implications for CPGs and biomimetic robotics. Reply to comments on “Control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimming ro	9
Visual context drives uncertainty-reduction and novelty-seeking exploration during action understanding	9
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	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	8
Preliminaries to artificial consciousness: A multidimensional heuristic approach	8
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	8
From multi-scale to non-local models	7
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., &	7
Editorial Board	7
Determinism of formamide-based biogenic prebiotic reactions	7
Distinguishing nature and nurture in understanding the sadness of the minor mode: Comment on “The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception” by Giulio Carraturo, Victor Pando-Naude, Marco Costa,	6
A contribution to understanding the application of Pulsed Electric Fields in liquid food processing	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
Particularly average	6
How many more uses of bricks can we generate? How knowledge is somewhat neglected in a model full of knowledge	6
Social timing as an active, multisensory, and embodied process. A commentary on “The evolution of social timing” by Verga, Kotz and Ravignani	6
From Parrondo's paradox to collective intelligence	6
Addressing misconceptions on Latent Solution tests	6
Control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimming robots	6
Species extinction in different time scales	5
Knowledge clustering and the acquisition of creative expertise	5
A brigde toward mathematics theory in living systems: the thermostatted kinetic theory method for crowd dynamics	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
The hare and the honey: Health care as transformative learning	5
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
Can major breakthroughs in cancer be achieved through theoretical models?	5

Focusing on relevant data and correcting misconceptions reaffirms the ape ZLS	5
Comment on “Physics-based character animation and human motor control” by J. Llobera & C. Charbonnier	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
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
Prognostic potential of reading art in brain damage and the possible contribution of non-invasive brain stimulation	4
Perception and response of skeleton to mechanical stress	4
The music we march to: Beyond beat, floating intentionality and improvisation	4
Heritability of white matter in twins: A diffusion neuroimaging review	4
Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation	4
Bioelectrics for healthy and food-secure lives: Reply to comments on “Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods”	4
Comment on “Viscoelastic mechanics of living cells” by Hui Zhou, Ruye Liu, Yizhou Xu, Jierui Fan, Xinyue Liu, Longquan Chen, Qiang Wei	4
Beyond simple laboratory studies, toward interactive methods	4
Computational models of peripersonal space representation	4
Non-invariants may be used for socially-relevant perceptual decisions	4
Motor invariants in action execution and perception	4
Aromatic patterns: Tryptophan aromaticity as a catalyst for the emergence of life and rise of consciousness	3
Building bidirectional, signed, and weighted interaction network among microbes	3
Motor variability in task-space and body-space	3
Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution	3
Yes, And	3
From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability	3
Possible contribution to data-driven primate research: Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Becchio, Pullar, Scaliti, and Panzeri	3
Measures, constructs, and constructing measurement: Reply to comments on “Can we really ‘read’ art to see the changing brain?”	3
Multiple applications of pulsed electric fields are game changer in food industry and biomedicine	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
High-order interaction modeling of tumor-microenvironment crosstalk for tumor growth	3
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.	3
Ant colony optimization: A bibliometric review	3
Consonance and dissonance perception. A critical review of the historical sources, multidisciplinary findings, and main hypotheses	3
WITHDRAWN: Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	3
More than one effect in every affect	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
Persons and their affective experiences. Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The affective pertinentization (APER) model” by salvatore et al.	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
Editorial Board	2
Editorial Board	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
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
Weighting and integrating heterogeneous behavioral cues comment on ‘kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour’	2
Contextualizing kinematic coding in naturalistic scenarios: Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Becchio, Pullar, Scaliti, and Panzeri	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
Goldstein's ‘catastrophic reactions’ reinterpreted as neuroaesthetic ‘signatures’	2
Reaction-diffusion waves in biology: new trends, recent developments	2
At the crossroad of the search for spontaneous radiation and the Orch OR consciousness theory	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
No sound evidence supports the notion that we can “read” art	2
Physical reasoning is the missing link between action goals and kinematics	2
Listening to dissonant and atonal music induces psychological tension and anxiety	2
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.	2
Simulating social dynamics with artificial intelligence	2
Untenable propositions and alternative avenues.	2
Can we “read” art…at all? A psychometric perspective on the possibility of measuring artwork attributes	2
Changes in style as a diagnostic medical tool or a way to study creativity in art?	2
Untangling the structure and function of complex neuronal networks	2
Spatial pattern formation, community assembly and resilience	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
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
Beyond task response - A key to the subjective aspects of consciousness	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 path forward for modeling action-oriented cognition as active inference	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
Can a mathematical model of mass extinctions do without environmental noise?	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
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,	2
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.	2
The riddle of TPJ function in language processing	2
Does the free energy principle sleep on it?	2
Electrical properties of cancer cells: A next generation biophysical therapeutic target	2
Cultural evolution in the science of culture and cultural evolution	2
From the free energy principle to a confederation of Bayesian mechanics	2
All quantum systems are strange	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
Cancer modelling as fertile ground for new mathematical challenges	2
Why predicting secreted effectors and what they do is important	2
Living on the edge – practical information geometry for studying the emergence and propagation of life forms	2
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	2
Matches, mismatches, and the experience of supernumerary body parts	2
Multilayer coupled mechanism	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
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	2
Information, computation, and causality in living systems	2
Physics of collective transport and traffic phenomena in biology: Progress in 20 years	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
Unlocking the doors of perception: A new era in sensory and consciousness sciences	1
Thoughts and thinkers: On the complementarity between objects and processes	1
A test run of the free energy principle: All for naught?	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
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
Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique	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
LLMs provide a potential pathway for the research of complex systems	1
Brain anatomy and dynamics: A commentary on “Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics” by Papo and Buldú (2024)	1
Mechanotherapy as an alternative for cancer treatment	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
From SIR to delay models in epidemiology	1
Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation: A comprehensive survey	1
Trick or treat	1
Patterns and particles	1
A novel recipe for prebiotic systems chemistry arising from autocatalytic relationships	1
An exciting path ahead	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
Mapping and measuring the Mind's Eye - Comment on visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture by Spagna et al.	1
The oscillatory nature of the motor and perceptive kinematics invariants	1
Taming the abundance of degrees of freedom	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
Cultural mechanics	1
The calculus of Life: Contingency vs. necessity	1
Very particular: Comment on “How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?”	1
Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psychotherapy	1
From seeing X-ray sparks to sparking neural circuits	1
Thoughts, loud and silent. Comment on “The sound of thought: Form matters – The prosody of inner speech” by Kreiner and Eviatar	1
Combinatorial creativity as blind-variation and selective-retention: A definitional update	1
Fine-tuning social timing: From non-human to human animals and back	1
Implications of electrical properties of cells for treatment specificity of electric/electromagnetic fields-based therapeutic approaches	1
The complexity of simplification	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
On consensus and cooperation	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
Integrative sensorimotor coding and the neurophysiology of intent: Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Becchio, Pullar, Scaliti, and Panzeri	1
Beyond objects and processes: Interfaces and the non-dual ground of perception and cognition. Comment on “Thoughts and Thinkers” by C. Fields and M. Levin	1
The mechanics of evolution: Phylogeny, ontogeny, and adaptive priors	1
An AI researchers' perspective: At the crossroad of LLMs, agent-based modeling, and complex systems	1
Escaping a blind alley: The ZLS as a ‘cultural crucible’?	1
A predictive model of attention	1
Nonlocal models in biology and life sciences: Sources, developments, and applications	1
Multi-scale phenomena behind the transmission of infectious disease	1
Neuromodulatory system in network science	1
Towards data-driven, next-generation understanding of network physiology	1
Optimality and stability of human behavior	1
The pledge for a new era of biology-applied network theory: Comment on “Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems” by Gosak et al.	1
Language: A special cognitive gadget: Comment on “Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution” by Balthasar Bickel, Anne-Lise Giraud, Klaus Zuberb..hler, Carel P. van Schaik	1
Studying naturalistic actions requires research programs and not trade-off decisions in individual studies	1
Data-rich modeling helps answer increasingly complex questions on variant and disease interactions	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
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
Markov border crossings	1
Insoluble organic matter - an “organic” cradle of life	1
Towards creating a mechanistic predictive theory of self-organized vegetation patterns	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
Left and right temporal-parietal junctions (TPJs) as “match/mismatch” hedonic machines: A unifying account of TPJ function	1
Plant-soil feedback as a driver of spatial structure in ecosystems	1
Towards a strange interpretation of the Free Energy Principle	1
Multiscale data for parametrising multiscale models	1
What, precisely, is a Bayesian belief?	1
Game theory and delays in thermostatted models	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
Inferential dynamics	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
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
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
Embodiment in flux: Comment on “Informational embodiment: Computational role of information structure in codes and robots” by Alexandre Pitti 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
The strangest particles in the world	1
PLRev at 20: Honoring Leonid Perlovsky and celebrating interdisciplinary science	1
Vegetation patterning and biodiversity of plant communities	1
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	1
Whiten and the ZLS: Comment on “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten	1
Integration of mathematical modeling of vegetation patterns with data and climate changes	1
Are neurodegenerative disorders causing characteristic changes in visual artwork?	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
Heterarchy or hierarchy? Insights from a new model of visual imagination	1
“ABMs are dead, long live G-ABMs!”, or a roadmap for opinion dynamics studies	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 forward look to perspectives	1
How can we relax the cost of reward and punishment?	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
Delayed feedback control of synchronization patterns	1
The new frontier of an IOM-based panspermia hypothesis: Perspectives and feasibility	1
Blankets at birth: Transitional objects	1
To enhance or not to enhance: A debate about cognitive enhancement from a psychological and neuroscientific perspective	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