Physics of Life Reviews

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	243
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”	118
Towards the utilization of LLMs for misinformation modeling and detection	107
Rotating waves and multistability in locomotion models	97
Particular flows and attracting sets	94
Social timing: More than combinatorial probabilities?	78
Language as a means to reduce uncertainty	68
Putting the framework to work: Comment on “a systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Lebuda & Benedek	63
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	61
Going deeper into the feelings in creative metacognition: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	52
A look forward to further developments: Building bridges between mathematics and economics in a multiscale fashion	47
From physics to sentience: Deciphering the semantics of the free-energy principle and evaluating its claims	45
Brain paradox – Timescales matter! Comment on “The paradox of the self-studying brain” by S.Battaglia, P. Servajean & K. Friston	43
Exploring the potential of kinematic coding in sports science: Implications for athletic action anticipation: Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Cristina	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	31
Editorial Board	31
Photobiomodulation effects on cancer cells through modifications of their bioelectric properties	30
Mathematical oncology: A new frontier in cancer biology and clinical decision making	30
“Homo informatio”	29
On implementation of nonlocal terms in models in ecology and evolution. Comment on `Nonlocal models in biology and life sciences: Sources, developments, and applications' by S. Pal and R. Melnic	29
Mathematical models for dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systematic review	28
Patterns of neuronal synchrony in higher-order networks	28
Toward embodied and action-oriented studies and models of peripersonal space: Comment on “Computational models of peripersonal space representations” by Bertoni et al.	27
Commentary on “ ‘Snakes and ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago”	24

Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems	24
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	22
To comment or not to comment, that is the question!	21
The structure of biological complexity: Comment on “Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems” by Gosak et al.	20
Neuromuscular invariants in action execution and perception	20
From local match/mismatch signals to updating of task-relevant beliefs: The temporo-parietal junction and its embedment in cortical networks	19
The vigor law as a kinematic invariant at work in perceptual-cognitive processes	19
Multiscale and multi-physical problems	19
A systematic framework of creative metacognition	18
Editorial Board	18
Integrating large language models and active inference to understand eye movements in reading and dyslexia	18
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	16
The devil is in the method details. Comment on ‘Visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture’ by Spagna et al.	16
Surfing brain waves without sinking	15
Time in peripersonal space. Comment on "computational models of peripersonal space representation" by Tommaso Bertoni, Ishan-Singh J. Chauhan, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino	15
The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception	14
Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour	14
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	13
The role mathematics can play in physics of life	13
A system sciences approach to consonance/dissonance: From biological constraints to cultural differences	12
When patterns come to life	12
Transversal aromaticity: Tryptophan as a bridge between molecular patterns and consciousness explained	11
Physics-based character animation and human motor control	11
Adding a mental health perspective on social timing	11
The second law of thermodynamics, life and Earth‘s planetary machinery revisited	11
Impacts of climate change on vegetation pattern: Mathematical modeling and data analysis	10
A natural experiment to understand genetic influences on brain structures. Comment on “Heritability of white matter in twins: A diffusion neuroimaging review” by Giovanni Videtta, Chiara Colli, Letizi	9
Is sharing always caring? Entropy, boundaries and the plurality of psychotherapeutic process: Comment on “Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psycho	9
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	9
GLMY Homology Theory Meets idopNetwork: Dissecting Soil Microbiota Resilience Under Forest Thinning and Climate Change: Comment on “Topological change of soil microbiota networks for forest resilience	9
Preliminaries to artificial consciousness: A multidimensional heuristic approach	9
From a mathematical science of living systems to biology and economics	8
The too many facets of motor output variability. Comment on “From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability” by Casartelli, L., Maronati, C., &	8
From multi-scale to non-local models	8
Editorial Board	8
A contribution to understanding the application of Pulsed Electric Fields in liquid food processing	8
Bridging nonlinear dynamics and physiology: Implications for CPGs and biomimetic robotics. Reply to comments on “Control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimming ro	8
Addressing misconceptions on Latent Solution tests	7
Determinism of formamide-based biogenic prebiotic reactions	7
Social timing as an active, multisensory, and embodied process. A commentary on “The evolution of social timing” by Verga, Kotz and Ravignani	7
Control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimming robots	7
How many more uses of bricks can we generate? How knowledge is somewhat neglected in a model full of knowledge	7
Visual context drives uncertainty-reduction and novelty-seeking exploration during action understanding	7
From Parrondo's paradox to collective intelligence	6
Species extinction in different time scales	6
Knowledge clustering and the acquisition of creative expertise	6
Particularly average	6
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	6
Focusing on relevant data and correcting misconceptions reaffirms the ape ZLS	6
Can major breakthroughs in cancer be achieved through theoretical models?	6

The hare and the honey: Health care as transformative learning	6
Comment on “Physics-based character animation and human motor control” by J. Llobera & C. Charbonnier	5
From static catalogs to dynamic regulation: Comment on “Unlocking the brain's code: The crucial role of post-translational modifications in neurodevelopment and neurological function” by Peng Ye et al	5
A brigde toward mathematics theory in living systems: the thermostatted kinetic theory method for crowd dynamics	5
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,	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
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
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.	5
Motor invariants in action execution and perception	5
Computational models of peripersonal space representation	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
Persons and their affective experiences. Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The affective pertinentization (APER) model” by salvatore et al.	4
Non-invariants may be used for socially-relevant perceptual decisions	4
A meta-perspective on the creative metacognition framework. Reply to comments on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition”	4
Possible contribution to data-driven primate research: Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Becchio, Pullar, Scaliti, and Panzeri	4
Balancing objects and processes: advocating pluralism in biology: Comment on “Thoughts and thinkers: On the complementarity between objects and processes" by Chris Fields and Michael Levin	4
Prognostic potential of reading art in brain damage and the possible contribution of non-invasive brain stimulation	4
Heritability of white matter in twins: A diffusion neuroimaging review	4
Perception and response of skeleton to mechanical stress	4
Comment on “Viscoelastic mechanics of living cells” by Hui Zhou, Ruye Liu, Yizhou Xu, Jierui Fan, Xinyue Liu, Longquan Chen, Qiang Wei	4
Aromatic patterns: Tryptophan aromaticity as a catalyst for the emergence of life and rise of consciousness	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
Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation	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
Neural decoding reliability: Breakthroughs and potential of brain–computer interfaces technologies in the treatment of neurological diseases	3
Building bidirectional, signed, and weighted interaction network among microbes	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
More than one effect in every affect	3
The circuit of cognition: Operational closure and the interpenetration of views. Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The affective pertinentization (APER) model” by Salvatore et al.	3
Revolutionizing dynamic microbiome network analysis via idopNetworks: Comment on “Topological change of soil microbiota networks for forest resilience under global warming” by Gong et al.	3
Ant colony optimization: A bibliometric review	3
Yes, And	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
Consonance and dissonance perception. A critical review of the historical sources, multidisciplinary findings, and main hypotheses	3
I gotta feeling: Beyond major and minor dichotomy in music emotions. Comment on “The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception” by Giulio Carraturo, Victor Pando-Naude, Marco Costa, Peter Vuust,	3
Information, computation, and causality in living systems	3
Against a “Lego perspective” on art and health interventions: comment on “Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique” by Martin Skov & Marcos Nadal	3
Multiple applications of pulsed electric fields are game changer in food industry and biomedicine	3
Beyond simple laboratory studies, toward interactive methods	3
The music we march to: Beyond beat, floating intentionality and improvisation	3
From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability	3
High-order interaction modeling of tumor-microenvironment crosstalk for tumor growth	3
WITHDRAWN: Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	3
Listening to dissonant and atonal music induces psychological tension and anxiety	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
Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution	3
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
Homo erectus’ slowly broadening Zone of Bounded Surprisals opened the way to technological culture	2
Measures, constructs, and constructing measurement: Reply to comments on “Can we really ‘read’ art to see the changing brain?”	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
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
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
A kinetic theory approach for modeling Alzheimer's disease: Insights and challenges	2
Connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI	2
The riddle of TPJ function in language processing	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
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
Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	2
Editorial Board	2
Creative metacognition in the problem construction process comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	2
The path forward for modeling action-oriented cognition as active inference	2
Matches, mismatches, and the experience of supernumerary body parts	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
Simple rules for simple models	2
Simulating social dynamics with artificial intelligence	2
The importance of tradeoffs in neural and motor variability	2
Motor variability in task-space and body-space	2
Multilayer coupled mechanism	2
No sound evidence supports the notion that we can “read” art	2
Snakes and ladders in the evolution of language	2
From the free energy principle to a confederation of Bayesian mechanics	2
Brain dynamics shape cognition–Spatiotemporal Neuroscience	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
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
Cultural evolution in the science of culture and cultural evolution	2
Living on the edge – practical information geometry for studying the emergence and propagation of life forms	2
Cancer modelling as fertile ground for new mathematical challenges	2
Current creative potential or generalization to the natural environment? Brief comments on the featured article	2
Spatial pattern formation, community assembly and resilience	2

Can a mathematical model of mass extinctions do without environmental noise?	2
Contextualizing kinematic coding in naturalistic scenarios: Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Becchio, Pullar, Scaliti, and Panzeri	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
Physical reasoning is the missing link between action goals and kinematics	2
Beyond stimulus-centric, dualist and modular theories of cognitive control: fact or fiction? Comment on “Active inference and cognitive control: Balancing deliberation and habits through precision opt	2
Electrical properties of cancer cells: A next generation biophysical therapeutic target	2
Goldstein's ‘catastrophic reactions’ reinterpreted as neuroaesthetic ‘signatures’	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
White matter, and why twin resemblance can still matter	2
COVID-19 epidemic: From data to mathematical models	2
Untenable propositions and alternative avenues.	2
Reaction-diffusion waves in biology: new trends, recent developments	2
All quantum systems are strange	2
Does the free energy principle sleep on it?	2
Can we “read” art…at all? A psychometric perspective on the possibility of measuring artwork attributes	2
At the crossroad of the search for spontaneous radiation and the Orch OR consciousness theory	2
Implications of cell's electrical properties for standard of care in glioblastoma therapy	2
Beyond task response - A key to the subjective aspects of consciousness	2
Editorial Board	2
Weighting and integrating heterogeneous behavioral cues comment on ‘kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour’	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
Very particular: Comment on “How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?”	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
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
A test run of the free energy principle: All for naught?	1
Physics of collective transport and traffic phenomena in biology: Progress in 20 years	1
Left and right temporal-parietal junctions (TPJs) as “match/mismatch” hedonic machines: A unifying account of TPJ function	1
The complexity of simplification	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
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
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
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
Implications of electrical properties of cells for treatment specificity of electric/electromagnetic fields-based therapeutic approaches	1
What challenges remain after 25 years of the enhancement debate?	1
Heterarchy or hierarchy? Insights from a new model of visual imagination	1
Editorial Board	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
The oscillatory nature of the motor and perceptive kinematics invariants	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
Vegetation patterning and biodiversity of plant communities	1
Escaping a blind alley: The ZLS as a ‘cultural crucible’?	1
On consensus and cooperation	1
Plant-soil feedback as a driver of spatial structure in ecosystems	1
From seeing X-ray sparks to sparking neural circuits	1
Multiscale data for parametrising multiscale models	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
Integration of mathematical modeling of vegetation patterns with data and climate changes	1
Towards creating a mechanistic predictive theory of self-organized vegetation patterns	1
Thoughts and thinkers: On the complementarity between objects and processes	1
PLRev at 20: Honoring Leonid Perlovsky and celebrating interdisciplinary science	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
Fine-tuning social timing: From non-human to human animals and back	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
Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psychotherapy	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
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
Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation: A comprehensive survey	1
Unlocking the doors of perception: A new era in sensory and consciousness sciences	1
Inferential dynamics	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
What, precisely, is a Bayesian belief?	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
Taming the abundance of degrees of freedom	1
Multi-scale phenomena behind the transmission of infectious disease	1
Building models, testing models: Asymmetric roles of SLF III networks?	1
To punch down or to build up: Comment on “Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique “ by Skov & Nadal	1
A forward look to perspectives	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
Integrative sensorimotor coding and the neurophysiology of intent: Comment on “Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour” by Becchio, Pullar, Scaliti, and Panzeri	1
The calculus of Life: Contingency vs. necessity	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
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
Studying naturalistic actions requires research programs and not trade-off decisions in individual studies	1
Combinatorial creativity as blind-variation and selective-retention: A definitional update	1
From abstract networks to biological realities	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
To enhance or not to enhance: A debate about cognitive enhancement from a psychological and neuroscientific perspective	1
Cultural mechanics	1
Thoughts, loud and silent. Comment on “The sound of thought: Form matters – The prosody of inner speech” by Kreiner and Eviatar	1
Game theory and delays in thermostatted models	1
Towards a strange interpretation of the Free Energy Principle	1
Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique	1
The mechanics of evolution: Phylogeny, ontogeny, and adaptive priors	1
Neuromodulatory system in network science	1
Markov border crossings	1
A novel recipe for prebiotic systems chemistry arising from autocatalytic relationships	1
Some minimal notes on notation and minima	1
A predictive model of attention	1
A technical comment on “A decade of thermostatted kinetic theory models for complex active matter living systems”. New fascinating perspectives of research	1
Mechanotherapy as an alternative for cancer treatment	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
Embodiment in flux: Comment on “Informational embodiment: Computational role of information structure in codes and robots” by Alexandre Pitti et al.	1
The new frontier of an IOM-based panspermia hypothesis: Perspectives and feasibility	1
Brain anatomy and dynamics: A commentary on “Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics” by Papo and Buldú (2024)	1
Investigating and forecasting infectious disease dynamics using epidemiological and molecular surveillance data	1