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.
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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}
Pub Date : 2024-09-04DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.004
Lucina Q. Uddin
{"title":"Addressing researcher degrees of freedom with best practice guidelines: Comment on ‘Connectivity analysis for task-based fMRI’ by S. Huang, F. De Brigard, R. Cabeza, and S. W. Davis","authors":"Lucina Q. Uddin","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 20-21"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1571064524001155/pdfft?md5=5c202e1d4e7a754cf70d81aaf9f0687f&pid=1-s2.0-S1571064524001155-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142162435","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 : 2024-09-03DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.012
Nouamane Bakhdil , Abdelghani El Mousaoui , Abdelilah Hakim
{"title":"Perspectives on modeling pedestrian dynamics by thermostatted kinetic theory","authors":"Nouamane Bakhdil , Abdelghani El Mousaoui , Abdelilah Hakim","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 18-19"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142144800","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 : 2024-09-03DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.010
R.I.M. Dunbar
{"title":"Why the distinction between language and languages matters Comment on “Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution” by Balthasar Bickel, Anne-Lise Giraud, Klaus Zuberbühler, Carel P. van Schaik","authors":"R.I.M. Dunbar","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 31-32"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142172612","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 : 2024-08-29DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.009
Marco Battaglia
{"title":"White matter, and why twin resemblance can still matter","authors":"Marco Battaglia","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 24-26"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142162437","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 : 2024-08-29DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.011
Xin Di , Li Zhang , Zhiguo Zhang , Bharat B. Biswal
{"title":"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.","authors":"Xin Di , Li Zhang , Zhiguo Zhang , Bharat B. Biswal","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 13-17"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142137494","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 : 2024-08-26DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.008
Narayanan Srinivasan, Ramya Mudumba
{"title":"Alpha suppression in the context of cross-frequency interactions between fast and intermediate timescales","authors":"Narayanan Srinivasan, Ramya Mudumba","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 11-12"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142098115","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 : 2024-08-20DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.007
Christopher M. Filley
{"title":"Exploring the genetics of white matter 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, and Giuseppe Delvecchio","authors":"Christopher M. Filley","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 9-10"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142088721","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 : 2024-08-20DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.006
Nicola Bellomo , Marina Dolfin , Jie Liao
This work is dedicated to the study, modeling, and simulation, of the collective dynamics of interacting living entities. The first perspective is to develop a mathematical theory of swarm intelligence for the above mentioned systems. The second perspective is to design the conceptual tools for a theory of artificial intelligence. The aim is to model a dynamics where interacting entities learn from other entities as well as from the environment and external actions. Then, out of this collective learning process, each entity develops a strategy to pursue specific goals through a decision making process that leads to the dynamic. The approach is based on developments of the kinetic theory of active particles. This paper does not naively state that the problem of artificial intelligence for collective dynamics has been exhaustively considered, but some hints are proposed to contribute to such a challenging perspective in view of further developments.
{"title":"Life and self-organization on the way to artificial intelligence for collective dynamics","authors":"Nicola Bellomo , Marina Dolfin , Jie Liao","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This work is dedicated to the study, modeling, and simulation, of the collective dynamics of interacting living entities. The first perspective is to develop a mathematical theory of swarm intelligence for the above mentioned systems. The second perspective is to design the conceptual tools for a theory of artificial intelligence. The aim is to model a dynamics where interacting entities learn from other entities as well as from the environment and external actions. Then, out of this collective learning process, each entity develops a strategy to pursue specific goals through a decision making process that leads to the dynamic. The approach is based on developments of the kinetic theory of active particles. This paper does not naively state that the problem of artificial intelligence for collective dynamics has been exhaustively considered, but some hints are proposed to contribute to such a challenging perspective in view of further developments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1571064524000976/pdfft?md5=760dc8389abd8423b1d9393d25dcefd0&pid=1-s2.0-S1571064524000976-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142088720","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}