Physics of Life Reviews

Article	Citations
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	152
Thoughts and thinkers: On the complementarity between objects and processes	85
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.	78
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	70
Aromatic patterns: Tryptophan aromaticity as a catalyst for the emergence of life and rise of consciousness	65
From a free energy principle to a free energy model?	58
On the significance of the electrostatic differences between cancer and normal cells	56
Towards data-driven, next-generation understanding of network physiology	55
Trick or treat	50
Are neurodegenerative disorders causing characteristic changes in visual artwork?	50
On microbial syringes: Advances in our understanding of type III secretion systems in bacterial pathogenesis	46
Editorial Board	44
A look forward to further developments: Building bridges between mathematics and economics in a multiscale fashion	41
A forward look to perspectives	38
An exciting path ahead	37
From physics to sentience: Deciphering the semantics of the free-energy principle and evaluating its claims	31
Unambiguous precision	29
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	28
Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation	24
From particles to collectives	24
The complexity of simplification	22
Dealing with fragments of past biospheres	21
Prognostic potential of reading art in brain damage and the possible contribution of non-invasive brain stimulation	20
Non-invariants may be used for socially-relevant perceptual decisions	19
Data-driven theory formulation or theory-driven data interpretation?	18

Mathematical modeling is an efficient research tool to address challenges in mass extinction research	18
Editorial Board	18
Psychocultural histories and explanatory gaps	17
The interplay between biochemical mediators and mechanotransduction in chondrocytes: Unravelling the differential responses in primary knee osteoarthritis	16
LLMs and generative agent-based models for complex systems research	16
Mathematical models on Alzheimer's disease and its treatment: A review	14
Going deeper into the feelings in creative metacognition: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	14
Yes, And	14
Putting the framework to work: Comment on “a systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Lebuda & Benedek	13
Editorial Board	12
Consciousness and temporality: A psychopathologist's view Commentary to Beyond task response—Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness by Northoff, Zilio and Zhangc	12
How can we relax the cost of reward and punishment?	10
Embodied playfulness in musical synchrony: Comment on “musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability” by Tal-Chen Rabinowitch	9
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	9
The music we march to: Beyond beat, floating intentionality and improvisation	9
Vocal similarity theory and the biology of musical tonality	8
Distinctions between brain structure, complexity, and function. Comment on “Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics” by Papo and Buldú	8
Heritability of white matter in twins: A diffusion neuroimaging review	8
Aging, Inflammaging and Adaptation	7
Situating and extending the sense of should	7
Data-rich modeling helps answer increasingly complex questions on variant and disease interactions	6
Particular flows and attracting sets	6
Sociality and Timing: Correlation or Causation? Comment on ‘The evolution of social timing’ by Verga L., Kotz S. & Ravignani A.	6
Mechanisms underlying the social effects of music: Comment on “Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability”	6
Building models, testing models: Asymmetric roles of SLF III networks?	6
Inferential dynamics	6
Language as a means to reduce uncertainty	6
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	6
From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability	6
Mapping and measuring the Mind's Eye - Comment on visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture by Spagna et al.	5
Gut mechanoimmunology: Shaping immune response through physical cues	5
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	5
Stretching the limits of tightness and looseness in music interaction Reply to comments on “Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability”	5
Chimpanzee culture in context	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
Beyond simple laboratory studies, toward interactive methods	5
Social timing: More than combinatorial probabilities?	5
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	5
On consensus and cooperation	5
Ant colony optimization: A bibliometric review	5
A decade of thermostatted kinetic theory models for complex active matter living systems	4
Persons and their affective experiences. Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The affective pertinentization (APER) model” by salvatore et al.	4
Connecting brain and mind through temporo-spatial dynamics: Towards a theory of common currency	4
The Markov blanket trick: On the scope of the free energy principle and active inference	4
Alpha suppression in the context of cross-frequency interactions between fast and intermediate timescales	4
Game theory and delays in thermostatted models	4
Mechanotransduction in tumor dynamics modeling	4
Rotating waves and multistability in locomotion models	4
Combinatorial creativity as blind-variation and selective-retention: A definitional update	4
Physics of collective transport and traffic phenomena in biology: Progress in 20 years	4

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	4
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	3
It's About Time: Rhythmic Foundations of Inner Thought: Comment on “The Sound of Thought: Form Matters The Prosody of Inner Speech” by Hamutal Kreiner, Zohar Eviatar	3
Building bidirectional, signed, and weighted interaction network among microbes	3
Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems	3
Fine-tuning social timing: From non-human to human animals and back	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
Consonance and dissonance perception. A critical review of the historical sources, multidisciplinary findings, and main hypotheses	3
Patterns of neuronal synchrony in higher-order networks	3
WITHDRAWN: Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	3
Environmental factors and their impact on chronic pain development and maintenance	3
Building a Synthetic Theory of Linguistic Evolution? Comment on “Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution” by B. Bickel et al.	3
Since Feeling is First: Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The Affective Pertinentization (APER) Model” by Sergio Salvatore, Arianna Palmieri, Raffaele De Luca Picione, Vincenzo Bochicchio	3
Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psychotherapy	3
Combining inter-areal, mesoscopic, and neurodynamic models of cortical function	3
Heterarchy or hierarchy? Insights from a new model of visual imagination	2
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	2
Measures, constructs, and constructing measurement: Reply to comments on “Can we really ‘read’ art to see the changing brain?”	2
Creative metacognition: A much needed bridge between meta-reasoning and creativity	2
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
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	2
Editorial Board	2
Multiscale and multi-physical problems	2
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	2
The strangest particles in the world	2
What, precisely, is a Bayesian belief?	2
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.	2
Searching for unifying laws of general adaptation syndrome	2
A test run of the free energy principle: All for naught?	2
Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution	2
Emergence of Life-like properties from nonlinear spatial kinetics	2
The mechanics of evolution: Phylogeny, ontogeny, and adaptive priors	2
Photobiomodulation effects on cancer cells through modifications of their bioelectric properties	2
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”	2
Motor variability in task-space and body-space	2
Addressing market regime transitions with the tools of behavioral swarms and kinetic theory	2
Editorial Board	2
Cultural mechanics	2
Pushing the boundaries of a physical approach for the study of sensorimotor control	2
Grounding social timing	2
Editorial Board	2
More than one effect in every affect	2
The ultimate trick?	2
‘Snakes and ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago	2
Unlocking the doors of perception: A new era in sensory and consciousness sciences	2
Creativity, art and brain	2
Calls of the wild: Exploring the evolutionary roots of consonance and dissonance	2
Are TPJs conflict detectors or solvers?	2
Information, computation, and causality in living systems	2
Beyond ‘cold’ creative metacognition: Toward a more integrated framework	2
Variability allows for adaptation in dynamic environments comment on ‘From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability’ by L. Casartelli, C. Maronati	2
Implications of electrical properties of cells for treatment specificity of electric/electromagnetic fields-based therapeutic approaches	2
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	2
Listening to dissonant and atonal music induces psychological tension and anxiety	2
Another brick in the wall? Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	2
Blankets at birth: Transitional objects	2
Brain anatomy and dynamics: A commentary on “Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics” by Papo and Buldú (2024)	2
Mathematical models for dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systematic review	2
Markov border crossings	2
System-specificity of genotype-phenotype map structure	2
Environmental factors in chronic pain comment on “Environmental factors and their impact on chronic pain development and maintenance” by M.B. Sant'Anna, et al.	1
The vigor law as a kinematic invariant at work in perceptual-cognitive processes	1
Insoluble organic matter in chondrites: Archetypal melanin-like PAH-based multifunctionality at the origin of life?	1
Studying naturalistic actions requires research programs and not trade-off decisions in individual studies	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
Untenable propositions and alternative avenues.	1
Transversal aromaticity: Tryptophan as a bridge between molecular patterns and consciousness explained	1
Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition	1
Genotype-phenotype maps and the predictability of evolution	1
A guided tour through the spaces of particular “minds”: A Comment on “Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things”	1
Additional aspects to the tight-loose in music model	1
Understanding the role of mechanical stimuli in chondrocyte responsiveness and adaptations: Need for integrating insights on OA-associated changes in the multi-scale mechanical environment	1
Whiten and the ZLS: Comment on “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten	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
Studying the hierarchy of actions from motor primitives	1
Editorial Board	1
Towards creating a mechanistic predictive theory of self-organized vegetation patterns	1
Expanding the Horizon of Interaction Modeling in Complex Systems Comment on “Topological change of soil microbiota networks for forest resilience under global warming” by Huiying Gong et al.	1
Framing wellbeing and societal challenge mechanisms via distinct outcomes of art experience? A brief revisit to the VIMAP	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
Stressed tumors and their maths	1
Speech: A skeleton for thought? Comment on “The sound of thought: Form matters – The prosody of inner speech” by Hamutal Kreiner, Zohar Eviatar	1
Mathematical oncology: A new frontier in cancer biology and clinical decision making	1
Functional asymmetry and the consequences of action	1
Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour	1
Plant-soil feedback as a driver of spatial structure in ecosystems	1
The controversial status of affect in the interplay between the body and the mind: Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The Affective Pertinentization (APER) model” by Salvatore et al. 2024	1
Investigating and forecasting infectious disease dynamics using epidemiological and molecular surveillance data	1
At the crossroad of the search for spontaneous radiation and the Orch OR consciousness theory	1
Editorial Board	1
Parametric control of limb mechanics is accomplished in the spinal cord by parallel-distributed processing	1
Reaction-diffusion waves in biology: new trends, recent developments	1
The path forward for modeling action-oriented cognition as active inference	1
The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception	1
A systematic framework of creative metacognition	1
The networkness of the brain	1
All is not quiet on the food safety front thanks to pulsed electric field treatment	1
To comment or not to comment, that is the question!	1
Perspectives in cancer treatment	1
Editorial Board	1
Towards a strange interpretation of the Free Energy Principle	1
What art can tell us about the human brain, in health and disease	1
Dark brain energy: Toward an integrative model of spontaneous slow oscillations	1
Adding a mental health perspective on social timing	1
The role of alpha activity in regulating inward and outward conscious perception	1
Past, present, and future: Dissecting the bacterial type III secretion system	1
Novel directions in modeling the mechanically-driven tumor progression	1
The evolution of human music in light of increased prosocial behavior: a new model	1
Multiple applications of pulsed electric fields are game changer in food industry and biomedicine	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
Evolution and irreversibility: Two distinct phenomena and their distinct laws of nature	1
The interplay between inflammatory mediators and mechanotransduction is mediated by ion channels in articular chondrocytes: Functional consequences in osteoarthritis	1
Goldstein's ‘catastrophic reactions’ reinterpreted as neuroaesthetic ‘signatures’	1
The distinguishing electrical properties of cancer cells	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
Commentary on “ ‘Snakes and ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago”	1
Life and self-organization on the way to artificial intelligence for collective dynamics	1
Left and right temporal-parietal junctions (TPJs) as “match/mismatch” hedonic machines: A unifying account of TPJ function	1
Zones of proximal cognitive assimilation in the transmission of culture	1
On evolution of non-binding commitments	1
Multiscale data for parametrising multiscale models	1
Reasonings on multiple strategies in differential systems	1
The paradox of the self-studying brain	1
Viewing mass extinctions through the lens of mathematical modeling	1
Unraveling the dynamic interplay between mechanical stress and bone homeostasis	1
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	1
PLRev at 20: Honoring Leonid Perlovsky and celebrating interdisciplinary science	1
Why predicting secreted effectors and what they do is important	1
The role of mathematical models in epidemic prediction and the challenges of COVID-19. Comment on ‘data-driven mathematical modeling approaches for COVID-19: A survey’ by J. Demongeot, P. Magal	1
Interstellar chemical reactions toward the synthesis of the life's building blocks	1
Actions are all we need for cognition, but do we know enough about them?	1
Untangling the structure and function of complex neuronal networks	1
The structure of biological complexity: Comment on “Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems” by Gosak et al.	1
Sparse coupling and Markov blankets	1
Editorial Board	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
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
From abstract networks to biological realities	1
Very particular: Comment on “How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?”	1
A timely research guide on liquid food treatment using pulsed electric field	1
Update on “Emotion and autobiographical memory”: 14 years of advances in understanding functions, constructions, and consequences	1
On fields, light and excitability in glioblastoma	1
Some features on methodology of dengue modelling linked to data	1
Knowledge gaps and missing links in understanding mass extinctions: Can mathematical modeling help?	1
Motor-invariants for action understanding in video	1
Affective dynamics in unionization and solidarity: Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The Affective Pertinentization (APER) model” by Salvatore et al.	1
Why graph theory deserves more focus. Comment on “Connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI” by Huang et al.	1
Explaining the ‘gigantic gulf’: ‘Sorta’ cultures, cultural selection and compositionality	1
Learning action hierarchies	1
Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods	1
Matches, mismatches, and the experience of supernumerary body parts	1
Nuancing the heterarchical theory of visual mental imagery	1
Opportunities and challenges in connectivity analysis for task-based fMRI comment on “connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI” by Huang S, De Brigard, F., Cabeza, R, and Davis, S.W.	1
Advancing epidemic modeling: The role of LLMs and generative agent-based models Comment on LLMs and generative agent-based models for complex systems research by Lu et al.	1
Collective fluctuation implies imminent state transition	1
Thoughts, loud and silent. Comment on “The sound of thought: Form matters – The prosody of inner speech” by Kreiner and Eviatar	1
The new frontier of an IOM-based panspermia hypothesis: Perspectives and feasibility	1
Constructing agentive inference as a universal property: Strange functorial things and categorical red queen dynamics	1
Editorial Board	1
Insoluble organic matter - an “organic” cradle of life	1
Global perspectives linking climate change with vegetation pattern	1
Reputation and reciprocity	1
A system sciences approach to consonance/dissonance: From biological constraints to cultural differences	1
Neuromuscular invariants in action execution and perception	1
Escaping a blind alley: The ZLS as a ‘cultural crucible’?	1
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	1
Rich behavior, parsimony, and parameters: Comment on “Beyond simple laboratory studies: Developing sophisticated models to study rich behavior” by Maselli, Gordon, Eluchans, Lancia, Thiery, Moretti, C	1
Multi-scale phenomena behind the transmission of infectious disease	1
Multilayer coupled mechanism	1
The calculus of Life: Contingency vs. necessity	1
Multiscale and multi-physical problems	1
From local match/mismatch signals to updating of task-relevant beliefs: The temporo-parietal junction and its embedment in cortical networks	1
More is definitely different: The zebrafish as witness	1
Exercise science perspective	1