Physics of Life Reviews

Article	Citations
Aging, Inflammaging and Adaptation	188
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	95
Particular flows and attracting sets	94
Language as a means to reduce uncertainty	78
Social timing: More than combinatorial probabilities?	74
Editorial Board	71
Putting the framework to work: Comment on “a systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Lebuda & Benedek	63
Going deeper into the feelings in creative metacognition: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	58
A look forward to further developments: Building bridges between mathematics and economics in a multiscale fashion	56
From physics to sentience: Deciphering the semantics of the free-energy principle and evaluating its claims	56
Rotating waves and multistability in locomotion models	55
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	38
Editorial Board	32
Mathematical oncology: A new frontier in cancer biology and clinical decision making	28
Photobiomodulation effects on cancer cells through modifications of their bioelectric properties	26
Another brick in the wall? Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	25
Brain paradox – Timescales matter! Comment on “The paradox of the self-studying brain” by S.Battaglia, P. Servajean & K. Friston	25
Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods	25
Mathematical models for dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systematic review	25
Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems	23
Patterns of neuronal synchrony in higher-order networks	21
Commentary on “ ‘Snakes and ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago”	20

The vigor law as a kinematic invariant at work in perceptual-cognitive processes	20
The structure of biological complexity: Comment on “Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems” by Gosak et al.	19
From local match/mismatch signals to updating of task-relevant beliefs: The temporo-parietal junction and its embedment in cortical networks	19
Neuromuscular invariants in action execution and perception	18
To comment or not to comment, that is the question!	18
Multiscale and multi-physical problems	17
When patterns come to life	16
A systematic framework of creative metacognition	16
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	16
Physics-based character animation and human motor control	15
The role mathematics can play in physics of life	15
The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception	15
Editorial Board	15
Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour	14
Transversal aromaticity: Tryptophan as a bridge between molecular patterns and consciousness explained	13
Adding a mental health perspective on social timing	13
The devil is in the method details. Comment on ‘Visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture’ by Spagna et al.	12
A system sciences approach to consonance/dissonance: From biological constraints to cultural differences	12
Impacts of climate change on vegetation pattern: Mathematical modeling and data analysis	11
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	11
The second law of thermodynamics, life and Earth‘s planetary machinery revisited	11
From a mathematical science of living systems to biology and economics	10
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
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	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
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
Control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimming robots	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
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	7
Editorial Board	7
Determinism of formamide-based biogenic prebiotic reactions	7
Preliminaries to artificial consciousness: A multidimensional heuristic approach	7
Addressing misconceptions on Latent Solution tests	6
Particularly average	6
Focusing on relevant data and correcting misconceptions reaffirms the ape ZLS	6
Social timing as an active, multisensory, and embodied process. A commentary on “The evolution of social timing” by Verga, Kotz and Ravignani	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
From Parrondo's paradox to collective intelligence	6
How many more uses of bricks can we generate? How knowledge is somewhat neglected in a model full of knowledge	6
A contribution to understanding the application of Pulsed Electric Fields in liquid food processing	6
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
Why Paleolithic Rockstars were both enigmatic and sporadic: A comment on: ‘Snakes and Ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago	5
Motor invariants in action execution and perception	5
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
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
The hare and the honey: Health care as transformative learning	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
Can major breakthroughs in cancer be achieved through theoretical models?	5
Comment on “Physics-based character animation and human motor control” by J. Llobera & C. Charbonnier	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
Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation	4
Perception and response of skeleton to mechanical stress	4
Heritability of white matter in twins: A diffusion neuroimaging review	4
Non-invariants may be used for socially-relevant perceptual decisions	4
Beyond simple laboratory studies, toward interactive methods	4
A meta-perspective on the creative metacognition framework. Reply to comments on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition”	4
Prognostic potential of reading art in brain damage and the possible contribution of non-invasive brain stimulation	4
WITHDRAWN: Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	3
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	3
Information, computation, and causality in living systems	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
The music we march to: Beyond beat, floating intentionality and improvisation	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
Building bidirectional, signed, and weighted interaction network among microbes	3
Motor variability in task-space and body-space	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
Persons and their affective experiences. Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The affective pertinentization (APER) model” by salvatore et al.	3
Aromatic patterns: Tryptophan aromaticity as a catalyst for the emergence of life and rise of consciousness	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
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
Listening to dissonant and atonal music induces psychological tension and anxiety	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
Yes, And	3
From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability	3
Languages are Cultural Artifacts and Align with Cultural Evolution: Comment on “Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution” by Balthasar Bickel, Anne-Lise Giraud, Klaus Zuberbühler, C	3
Visual sensitivity to biological motion invariants in humans at birth	2
The importance of tradeoffs in neural and motor variability	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
Electrical properties of cancer cells: A next generation biophysical therapeutic target	2
Beyond task response - A key to the subjective aspects of consciousness	2
Implications of cell's electrical properties for standard of care in glioblastoma therapy	2
Weighting and integrating heterogeneous behavioral cues comment on ‘kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour’	2
Less is more: Strangeness affords flexibility – A commentary on “Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things” by Friston, Da Costa, Sakthivadivel, Heins, Pavliotis, Ramstead, and Parr	2
The 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
From the free energy principle to a confederation of Bayesian mechanics	2
Cancer modelling as fertile ground for new mathematical challenges	2
The path forward for modeling action-oriented cognition as active inference	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
Living on the edge – practical information geometry for studying the emergence and propagation of life forms	2
At the crossroad of the search for spontaneous radiation and the Orch OR consciousness theory	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
Connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI	2
Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	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
Homo erectus’ slowly broadening Zone of Bounded Surprisals opened the way to technological culture	2
Editorial Board	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
No sound evidence supports the notion that we can “read” art	2
Multilayer coupled mechanism	2
Physical reasoning is the missing link between action goals and kinematics	2
Can a mathematical model of mass extinctions do without environmental noise?	2
All quantum systems are strange	2
The riddle of TPJ function in language processing	2
Untenable propositions and alternative avenues.	2
More than one effect in every affect	2
Why predicting secreted effectors and what they do is important	2
The toughness, elasticity, color, and consistency of cooperation	2
Creative metacognition in the problem construction process comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	2
Reaction-diffusion waves in biology: new trends, recent developments	2
Can we “read” art…at all? A psychometric perspective on the possibility of measuring artwork attributes	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
Changes in style as a diagnostic medical tool or a way to study creativity in art?	2
Editorial Board	2
Cultural evolution in the science of culture and cultural evolution	2
Goldstein's ‘catastrophic reactions’ reinterpreted as neuroaesthetic ‘signatures’	2
Does the free energy principle sleep on it?	2
Spatial pattern formation, community assembly and resilience	2
Current creative potential or generalization to the natural environment? Brief comments on the featured article	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
Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution	2
Untangling the structure and function of complex neuronal networks	2
Matches, mismatches, and the experience of supernumerary body parts	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	1

Cultural mechanics	1
One person's modus ponens…	1
The strangest particles in the world	1
Blankets at birth: Transitional objects	1
Exploring biological mechanisms of lifestyle and environmental factors in humans: Current challenges and future directions. Invited comment on: “Environmental factors and their impact on chronic pain	1
System-specificity of genotype-phenotype map structure	1
Visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture	1
The oscillatory nature of the motor and perceptive kinematics invariants	1
Zones of proximal cognitive assimilation in the transmission of culture	1
From abstract networks to biological realities	1
Multi-scale phenomena behind the transmission of infectious disease	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
LLMs provide a potential pathway for the research of complex systems	1
Towards creating a mechanistic predictive theory of self-organized vegetation patterns	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
PLRev at 20: Honoring Leonid Perlovsky and celebrating interdisciplinary science	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
Towards data-driven, next-generation understanding of network physiology	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
The calculus of Life: Contingency vs. necessity	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 ultimate trick?	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
Left and right temporal-parietal junctions (TPJs) as “match/mismatch” hedonic machines: A unifying account of TPJ function	1
Investigating and forecasting infectious disease dynamics using epidemiological and molecular surveillance data	1
Brain anatomy and dynamics: A commentary on “Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics” by Papo and Buldú (2024)	1
A test run of the free energy principle: All for naught?	1
On consensus and cooperation	1
Trick or treat	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
A predictive model of attention	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
Addressing market regime transitions with the tools of behavioral swarms and kinetic theory	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
Co-constructing Markov blankets: Tricky solutions	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
Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psychotherapy	1
The posture-based motion planning model from cognitive psychology may prove useful for physics-based character animation	1
Vegetation patterning and biodiversity of plant communities	1
Informational embodiment: Computational role of information structure in codes and robots	1
Plant-soil feedback as a driver of spatial structure in ecosystems	1
Interstellar chemical reactions toward the synthesis of the life's building blocks	1
The new frontier of an IOM-based panspermia hypothesis: Perspectives and feasibility	1
Whiten and the ZLS: Comment on “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten	1
Thoughts, loud and silent. Comment on “The sound of thought: Form matters – The prosody of inner speech” by Kreiner and Eviatar	1
An AI researchers' perspective: At the crossroad of LLMs, agent-based modeling, and complex systems	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
Combinatorial creativity as blind-variation and selective-retention: A definitional update	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
Escaping a blind alley: The ZLS as a ‘cultural crucible’?	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
Nonlocal models in biology and life sciences: Sources, developments, and applications	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
Insoluble organic matter - an “organic” cradle of life	1
The complexity of simplification	1
Prescriptive, descriptive or predictive models: What approach should be taken when empirical data is limited? Reply to comments on “Mathematical models for Dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systema	1
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
Implications of electrical properties of cells for treatment specificity of electric/electromagnetic fields-based therapeutic approaches	1
Physiological noise: a comprehensive review on informative randomness in neural systems	1
Unlocking the doors of perception: A new era in sensory and consciousness sciences	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
Inferential dynamics	1
Multiscale and multi-physical problems	1
What, precisely, is a Bayesian belief?	1
Long-living transients in ecological models: Recent progress, new challenges, and open questions	1
Creativity, art and brain	1
Towards a strange interpretation of the Free Energy Principle	1
Evolutionary leap: Prioritizing Bayesian cognition over socio-cultural transmission	1
How can we relax the cost of reward and punishment?	1
Optimality and stability of human behavior	1
Markov border crossings	1
A technical comment on “A decade of thermostatted kinetic theory models for complex active matter living systems”. New fascinating perspectives of research	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
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
How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?	1
Very particular: Comment on “How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?”	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
Mechanotherapy as an alternative for cancer treatment	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
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
Building models, testing models: Asymmetric roles of SLF III networks?	1
Multiscale data for parametrising multiscale models	1
A forward look to perspectives	1
Calls of the wild: Exploring the evolutionary roots of consonance and dissonance	1
Thoughts and thinkers: On the complementarity between objects and processes	1
Fine-tuning social timing: From non-human to human animals and back	1
Physics of collective transport and traffic phenomena in biology: Progress in 20 years	1
Emergence of Life-like properties from nonlinear spatial kinetics	1
The mechanics of evolution: Phylogeny, ontogeny, and adaptive priors	1
Studying naturalistic actions requires research programs and not trade-off decisions in individual studies	1
Editorial Board	1
Heterarchy or hierarchy? Insights from a new model of visual imagination	1
Patterns and particles	1
Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique	1