Pub Date : 2024-09-26DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.013
Jose' A. Saporta
{"title":"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, Mateo Reho, Maria Rita Serio, Giampaolo Salvatore","authors":"Jose' A. Saporta","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 229-230"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142455013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-21DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.012
N. Ladyka-Wojcik, M. Ritchey
{"title":"Surveying the neuroimager's connectivity toolbox: Comment on “Connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI” by Huang, De Brigard, Cabeza, & Davis","authors":"N. Ladyka-Wojcik, M. Ritchey","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 101-103"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142379794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-15DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.010
Chien-Ho (Janice) Lin , Ming-Chang Chiang
{"title":"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, Letizia Squarcina, Corrado Fagnani, Emanuela Medda, Paolo Brambilla, Giuseppe Delvecchio","authors":"Chien-Ho (Janice) Lin , Ming-Chang Chiang","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 85-86"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142243908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-15DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.009
Tal-Chen Rabinowitch
{"title":"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”","authors":"Tal-Chen Rabinowitch","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 104-107"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142387017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.006
Andrea Lavazza
{"title":"How to modulate consciousness through pre-stimulus manipulation. Comment on “Beyond task response–pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness” by Northoff, Zilio, and Zhang","authors":"Andrea Lavazza","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 62-63"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142243906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-07DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.008
Dean Keith Simonton
Simonton (2010) presented a combinational model of exceptional creativity based on Campbell's (1960) theory of blind-variation and selective-retention (BVSR). The presentation provided an explanatory and predictive basis for comprehending the phenomenon with respect to individual, domain, and field systems. Although the model inspired future research, such as that regarding the “equal-odds baseline,” its formal definition of “blindness” was inadequate. Recently, a new definition has been advanced that puts this essential concept on a stronger basis. Rather than relying on ideas drawn from evolutionary theory, the new definition depends on epistemology, which is more consistent with Campbell's original intentions. The result is a typology of rational, irrational, and blind variations, where only the blind are logically associated with creativity and knowledge production.
{"title":"Combinatorial creativity as blind-variation and selective-retention: A definitional update","authors":"Dean Keith Simonton","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Simonton (2010) presented a combinational model of exceptional creativity based on Campbell's (1960) theory of blind-variation and selective-retention (BVSR). The presentation provided an explanatory and predictive basis for comprehending the phenomenon with respect to individual, domain, and field systems. Although the model inspired future research, such as that regarding the “equal-odds baseline,” its formal definition of “blindness” was inadequate. Recently, a new definition has been advanced that puts this essential concept on a stronger basis. Rather than relying on ideas drawn from evolutionary theory, the new definition depends on epistemology, which is more consistent with Campbell's original intentions. The result is a typology of rational, irrational, and blind variations, where only the blind are logically associated with creativity and knowledge production.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 27-30"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1571064524001179/pdfft?md5=4356743907de659f92db2b5c9856856e&pid=1-s2.0-S1571064524001179-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142172611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-07DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.007
Marc N. Coutanche
{"title":"Tracking moment-to-moment variation in cognition with informational connectivity: Comment on “connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI” by Huang, De Brigard, Cabeza, & Davis","authors":"Marc N. Coutanche","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 60-61"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142243905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.005
Pietro Sarasso , Wolfgang Tschacher , Felix Schoeller , Gianni Francesetti , Jan Roubal , Michela Gecele , Katiuscia Sacco , Irene Ronga
This paper reviews biophysical models of psychotherapeutic change based on synergetics and the free energy principle. These models suggest that introducing sensory surprise into the patient-therapist system can lead to self-organization and the formation of new attractor states, disrupting entrenched patterns of thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. We propose that the therapist can facilitate this process by cultivating epistemic trust and modulating embodied attention to allow surprising affective states to enter shared awareness. Transient increases in free energy enable the update of generative models, expanding the range of experiences available within the patient-therapist phenomenal field. We hypothesize that patterns of disorganization at behavioural and physiological levels, indexed by increased entropy, complexity, and lower determinism, are key markers and predictors of psychotherapeutic gains. Future research should investigate how the therapist's openness to novelty shapes therapeutic outcomes.
{"title":"Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psychotherapy","authors":"Pietro Sarasso , Wolfgang Tschacher , Felix Schoeller , Gianni Francesetti , Jan Roubal , Michela Gecele , Katiuscia Sacco , Irene Ronga","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper reviews biophysical models of psychotherapeutic change based on synergetics and the free energy principle. These models suggest that introducing sensory surprise into the patient-therapist system can lead to self-organization and the formation of new attractor states, disrupting entrenched patterns of thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. We propose that the therapist can facilitate this process by cultivating epistemic trust and modulating embodied attention to allow surprising affective states to enter shared awareness. Transient increases in free energy enable the update of generative models, expanding the range of experiences available within the patient-therapist phenomenal field. We hypothesize that patterns of disorganization at behavioural and physiological levels, indexed by increased entropy, complexity, and lower determinism, are key markers and predictors of psychotherapeutic gains. Future research should investigate how the therapist's openness to novelty shapes therapeutic outcomes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 64-84"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142243907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-05DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.003
Mohammadreza Khodaei , Clayton C. McIntyre , Haley A. Kirse , Paul Laurienti
Huang et al. have conducted a thorough examination of methodologies used for identifying and analyzing functional connectivity using task-based fMRI. Their review adeptly describes current approaches without bias or preference. In this commentary, we explain why we believe that graph theory is the optimal approach for studying neural mechanisms associated with complex behaviors and cognitive processes that are engaged during task-based fMRI.
{"title":"Why graph theory deserves more focus. Comment on “Connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI” by Huang et al.","authors":"Mohammadreza Khodaei , Clayton C. McIntyre , Haley A. Kirse , Paul Laurienti","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Huang et al. have conducted a thorough examination of methodologies used for identifying and analyzing functional connectivity using task-based fMRI. Their review adeptly describes current approaches without bias or preference. In this commentary, we explain why we believe that graph theory is the optimal approach for studying neural mechanisms associated with complex behaviors and cognitive processes that are engaged during task-based fMRI.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 22-23"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142162436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}