Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-07-03DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.003
Antonio Criscuolo , Anna Czepiel , Michael Schwartze , Sonja A. Kotz
Recent empirical evidence and theoretical propositions motivate a paradigm shift in how we investigate neurocognitive functions. Rather than looking at the brain-behaviour relationship in isolation, research shows that cognition is shaped by reciprocal, dynamical interactions between the brain and the body across multiple timescales: from ultra-slow circadian rhythm to gastrointestinal and cardiorespiratory activity. This interest in body-brain-behaviour dynamics has raised new questions about if and how autonomic functioning, the coordination of intero- and exteroception, lifestyle and dietary choices, gut microbiome composition, hormonal cycles, and inflammation can impact behaviour, general health and well-being.
We carefully reviewed existing theoretical accounts and empirical evidence on the body-brain-behaviour interface and delineated new emerging avenues for multimodal, functional, ecologically valid, and personalized research that also integrates smart sensing technologies. In a synopsis, we propose the concept of a body-brain (dis)equilibrium regulating transitions from health to pathology.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-07-05DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.005
Stephen Clift , Katarzyna Grebosz-Haring
{"title":"The need for a critical perspective on arts and health research and reviews. Comment on “Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique” by Martin Skov and Marcos Nadal","authors":"Stephen Clift , Katarzyna Grebosz-Haring","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 116-119"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144588974","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 : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-05-17DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.05.006
Laura Ferreri , Barbara Tillmann
{"title":"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, Leonardo Bonetti, Elvira Brattico","authors":"Laura Ferreri , Barbara Tillmann","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.05.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.05.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 24-26"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144123554","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 : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-07-16DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.012
Hüden Neşe , Ahmet Ademoğlu , Tamer Demiralp
{"title":"Frequency-domain integration in attention networks: Comment on \"Dark brain energy: Toward an integrative model of spontaneous slow oscillations\" by Gong & Zuo","authors":"Hüden Neşe , Ahmet Ademoğlu , Tamer Demiralp","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 166-168"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144686071","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 : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-05-16DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.05.008
Riccardo Proietti , Thomas Parr , Alessia Tessari , Karl Friston , Giovanni Pezzulo
We advance a novel formulation of cognitive control within the active inference framework. The theory proposes that cognitive control amounts to optimising a precision parameter, which acts as a control signal and balances the contributions of deliberative and habitual components of action selection. To illustrate the theory, we simulate a driving scenario in which the driver follows a well-known route, but encounters unexpected challenges. Our simulations show that a standard active inference model can form adaptive habits; i.e., can pass from deliberative to habitual control when the context is stable, but generally fails to revert to deliberative control, when the context changes. To address this failure of context-sensitivity, we introduce a novel type of hierarchical active inference, in which a lower level is responsible for behavioural control and the higher (or meta-cognitive) level observes the belief updating of the lower level below and is responsible for cognitive control. Crucially, the meta-cognitive level can both form habits and suspend them, by controlling the (precision) parameter that prioritizes deliberative choices at the behavioural level. Furthermore, we show that several processes linked to cognitive control — such as surprise detection, cognitive conflict monitoring, control signal regulation and specification, the simulation of future outcomes and the assessment of the costs of control and mental effort — stem coherently from the free energy minimization scheme that underpins active inference. Finally, we discuss the putative neurobiology of cognitive control by simulating brain dynamics in the mesolimbic and mesocortical pathways of the dopamine system, the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and the locus coeruleus.
{"title":"Active inference and cognitive control: Balancing deliberation and habits through precision optimization","authors":"Riccardo Proietti , Thomas Parr , Alessia Tessari , Karl Friston , Giovanni Pezzulo","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.05.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.05.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We advance a novel formulation of cognitive control within the active inference framework. The theory proposes that cognitive control amounts to optimising a precision parameter, which acts as a control signal and balances the contributions of deliberative and habitual components of action selection. To illustrate the theory, we simulate a driving scenario in which the driver follows a well-known route, but encounters unexpected challenges. Our simulations show that a standard active inference model can form adaptive habits; i.e., can pass from deliberative to habitual control when the context is stable, but generally fails to revert to deliberative control, when the context changes. To address this failure of context-sensitivity, we introduce a novel type of hierarchical active inference, in which a lower level is responsible for behavioural control and the higher (or meta-cognitive) level observes the belief updating of the lower level below and is responsible for cognitive control. Crucially, the meta-cognitive level can both form habits and suspend them, by controlling the (precision) parameter that prioritizes deliberative choices at the behavioural level. Furthermore, we show that several processes linked to cognitive control — such as surprise detection, cognitive conflict monitoring, control signal regulation and specification, the simulation of future outcomes and the assessment of the costs of control and mental effort — stem coherently from the free energy minimization scheme that underpins active inference. Finally, we discuss the putative neurobiology of cognitive control by simulating brain dynamics in the mesolimbic and mesocortical pathways of the dopamine system, the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and the locus coeruleus.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 27-51"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144134412","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 : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-07-11DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.017
Huiying Gong , Yu Wang , Hongxing Wang , Xiaomei Sun , Shougong Zhang , Shing-Tung Yau , Rongling Wu
{"title":"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 global warming”","authors":"Huiying Gong , Yu Wang , Hongxing Wang , Xiaomei Sun , Shougong Zhang , Shing-Tung Yau , Rongling Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 152-154"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144654683","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 : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-08-05DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.024
Felipe De Brigard, Shenyang Huang, Roberto Cabeza, Simon Davis
{"title":"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","authors":"Felipe De Brigard, Shenyang Huang, Roberto Cabeza, Simon Davis","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.024","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 211-214"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144773065","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 : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-07-27DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.019
Miles Wischnewski , Zhihe Zhao
{"title":"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 Asl and A. Valizadeh","authors":"Miles Wischnewski , Zhihe Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 202-204"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144738554","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 : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-08-06DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.08.002
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
{"title":"Thinkers Without Thoughts: An Info-Computational Proposal. Comment on \"Thoughts and Thinkers: On the Complementarity Between Objects and Processes\" by Chris Fields & Michael Levin","authors":"Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.08.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.08.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 225-226"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144864690","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 : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-06-10DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.06.001
Gunter Kreutz
{"title":"Can we learn from the arts about health?: Comment on Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique by Martin Skov and Marcos Nadal","authors":"Gunter Kreutz","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.06.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 83-84"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144280882","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}
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