Pub Date : 2025-07-15DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.018
Junhao Liang , Changsong Zhou
{"title":"Build the neural dynamic model: Comment on “Dark brain energy: Toward an integrative model of spontaneous slow oscillations” by Zhu-Qing Gong and Xi-Nian Zuo","authors":"Junhao Liang , Changsong Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.018","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 155-157"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144654684","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 : 2025-07-12DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.016
Thomas Parr
{"title":"Paths and propagators: Comment on “Thoughts and thinkers: On the complementarity between objects and processes” by Fields and Levin","authors":"Thomas Parr","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 158-161"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144654685","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 : 2025-07-11DOI: 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":"2025-07-11","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}
{"title":"Bioelectrics for healthy and food-secure lives: Reply to comments on “Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods”","authors":"Farzan Zare , Negareh Ghasemi , Nidhi Bansal , Hamid Hosano","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>None.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 144-146"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144656282","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 : 2025-07-11DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.008
Simone Battaglia , Philippe Servajean , Karl J. Friston
{"title":"The paradox of the self-studying brain: Timescales, self-representation, and roots of consciousness. Reply to comments on 'The paradox of the self-studying brain'","authors":"Simone Battaglia , Philippe Servajean , Karl J. Friston","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 162-165"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144656391","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 : 2025-07-11DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.014
Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
{"title":"Embodiment in flux: Comment on “Informational embodiment: Computational role of information structure in codes and robots” by Alexandre Pitti et al.","authors":"Ezequiel A. Di Paolo","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 141-143"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144656281","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 : 2025-07-11DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.015
Vicky Karkou , Pier Luigi Sacco , Matthew Pelowski , Constantina Theofanopoulou , Catherine Carr , Val Huet , Jane Bourne , Robyn Dowlen , Helen Chatterjee
{"title":"Comment on 'Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique' by Skov and Nadal - A critique of the critique: Towards a more nuanced evaluation of current research on the health outcomes of arts-based interventions","authors":"Vicky Karkou , Pier Luigi Sacco , Matthew Pelowski , Constantina Theofanopoulou , Catherine Carr , Val Huet , Jane Bourne , Robyn Dowlen , Helen Chatterjee","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 147-151"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144654682","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 : 2025-07-11DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.009
Georg Northoff , Angelika Wolman , Jianfeng Zhang
Current neuroscience faces a divide between cognitive function and neural dynamics. Cognitive function is typically studied during task-related activity, while neural dynamics are a key feature of the brain’s spontaneous activity, as measured in the resting state. How are dynamics and cognition connected? Although neural dynamics themselves are well understood, their relationship to—and influence on—cognitive functions remain yet unclear. Addressing this gap is the goal of our paper. For that purpose, we first review recent findings on how dynamic features like neural variability and intrinsic neural timescales (INT) shape various cognitive functions. We then expand our view beyond task-specific foreground activity to the deeper background layers of the brain’s neural activity—its task-unspecific and spontaneous activity. This leads us to propose a Dynamic Layer Model of the Brain (DLB). Drawing on empirical and computational evidence, we demonstrate how neural variability, INT, and other dynamic features (such as scale-free dynamics) connect these three layers of neural activity. Next, we show how these three layers from spontaneous over task-unspecific to task-specific activity mediate four temporal mechanisms through which brain dynamics shape cognition: these range from temporal encoding and integration of input dynamics to temporal scaffolding and segmentation of cognitive output. We conclude that the brain’s neural dynamics operate in the background, shaping the cognitive functions and their contents in the neural foreground in a temporal-dynamic manner. This perspective is at the core of Spatiotemporal Neuroscience, which provides a wider framework than Cognitive Neuroscience by revealing how the brain’s intrinsic dynamics shape our cognition.
{"title":"Brain dynamics shape cognition–Spatiotemporal Neuroscience","authors":"Georg Northoff , Angelika Wolman , Jianfeng Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Current neuroscience faces a divide between cognitive function and neural dynamics. Cognitive function is typically studied during task-related activity, while neural dynamics are a key feature of the brain’s spontaneous activity, as measured in the resting state. How are dynamics and cognition connected? Although neural dynamics themselves are well understood, their relationship to—and influence on—cognitive functions remain yet unclear. Addressing this gap is the goal of our paper. For that purpose, we first review recent findings on how dynamic features like neural variability and intrinsic neural timescales (INT) shape various cognitive functions. We then expand our view beyond task-specific foreground activity to the deeper background layers of the brain’s neural activity—its task-unspecific and spontaneous activity. This leads us to propose a Dynamic Layer Model of the Brain (DLB). Drawing on empirical and computational evidence, we demonstrate how neural variability, INT, and other dynamic features (such as scale-free dynamics) connect these three layers of neural activity. Next, we show how these three layers from spontaneous over task-unspecific to task-specific activity mediate four temporal mechanisms through which brain dynamics shape cognition: these range from temporal encoding and integration of input dynamics to temporal scaffolding and segmentation of cognitive output. We conclude that the brain’s neural dynamics operate in the background, shaping the cognitive functions and their contents in the neural foreground in a temporal-dynamic manner. This perspective is at the core of Spatiotemporal Neuroscience, which provides a wider framework than Cognitive Neuroscience by revealing how the brain’s intrinsic dynamics shape our cognition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 173-201"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144713453","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 : 2025-07-10DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.011
Ge Wang
{"title":"From seeing X-ray sparks to sparking neural circuits","authors":"Ge Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 125-127"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144631295","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 : 2025-07-07DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.006
Nicola J. Holt
{"title":"Arts-based interventions: Why It’s Complex, and Why That Matters: Comment on “Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique” by Martin Skov and Marcos Nadal","authors":"Nicola J. Holt","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 122-124"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144595638","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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