{"title":"The emotional connotations of major and minor: The role of harmonicity and pitch height.","authors":"Richard Parncutt","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.12.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2024.12.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"52 ","pages":"129-131"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142891179","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":"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, Carel P. van Schaik (this issue).","authors":"Salikoko S Mufwene","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.12.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2024.12.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"52 ","pages":"57-60"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142794121","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}
Matthew Pelowski, Katherine N Cotter, Stephanie Miller, Helmut Leder
{"title":"Framing wellbeing and societal challenge mechanisms via distinct outcomes of art experience? A brief revisit to the VIMAP.","authors":"Matthew Pelowski, Katherine N Cotter, Stephanie Miller, Helmut Leder","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.12.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2024.12.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this brief contribution-happily afforded by the 20th anniversary of Physics of Life Reviews-we take the opportunity to reflect on our earlier published paper, which had introduced a theoretical framework, the VIMAP (Vienna Integrated Model of (Top-Down and Bottom-up processes in) Art Perception; (Pelowski et al., [1])) that has come to represent a major basis for organizing, anticipating, and empirically investigating the nuanced, multivariate visual art experience. We look back at the original model and its hypotheses, especially as these regard distinct \"outcomes,\" which we had argued may provide a superstructure of supraordinate, shared varieties of art experience detected across individual meetings of viewer, context, and artworks. In the present paper we consider whether these outcomes could also be a useful tool for approaching new demands across multiple art-related areas that have strengthened in the years since the original publication regarding applying the arts to wellbeing, societal challenges, and health. All of which require a framework for better understanding and testing the nuanced features of individual-centered art experience. We briefly-and admitedly very speculatively-consider how these new topics could be fit to the VIMAP [2]. Guided also by new evidence from our team that has provided a bottom-up verification of the specified outcome types and their implications, we provide a working set of suggestions whereby we might connect wellbeing- or attitude/behavioral change-related targets to the specific VIMAP outcomes, which we argue may provide a powerful mechanistic structure for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"52 ","pages":"132-143"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142913479","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":"The role of mathematical models in epidemic prediction and the challenges of COVID-19. Comment on 'data-driven mathematical modeling approaches for COVID-19: A survey' by J. Demongeot, P. Magal.","authors":"E Fanchon, A Stéphanou","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.12.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2024.12.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"52 ","pages":"55-56"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142790906","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":"Language is a unique form of communication that transformed human evolution but how unique is linguistic evolution?","authors":"François Osiurak, Nicolas Claidière","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.12.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2024.12.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"52 ","pages":"63-64"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142821653","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":"Comment on \"A decade of thermostatted kinetic theory models for complex active matter living systems\" by Carlo Bianca.","authors":"Francesco Pappalardo, Giulia Russo","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.11.019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2024.11.019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"52 ","pages":"61-62"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142805835","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":"Multi-scale phenomena behind the transmission of infectious disease: Comment on \"Data-driven mathematical modelling approaches for COVID-19: A survey\" by J. Demongeot & P. Magal.","authors":"R Eftimie","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.12.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2024.12.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"52 ","pages":"53-54"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142790905","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}
Giulio Carraturo, Victor Pando-Naude, Marco Costa, Peter Vuust, Leonardo Bonetti, Elvira Brattico
{"title":"The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception.","authors":"Giulio Carraturo, Victor Pando-Naude, Marco Costa, Peter Vuust, Leonardo Bonetti, Elvira Brattico","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.11.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2024.11.017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In Western tonal music, major and minor modes are recognized as the primary musical features in eliciting emotional responses. The underlying correlates of this dichotomy in music perception have been extensively investigated through decades of psychological and neuroscientific research, yielding plentiful yet often discordant results that highlight the complexity and individual differences in how these modes are perceived. This variability suggests that a deeper understanding of major-minor mode perception in music is still needed. We present the first comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis, providing both qualitative and quantitative syntheses of major-minor mode perception and its behavioural and neural correlates. The qualitative synthesis includes 70 studies, revealing significant diversity in how the major-minor dichotomy has been empirically investigated. Most studies focused on adults, considered participants' expertise, used real-life musical stimuli, conducted behavioural evaluations, and were predominantly performed with Western listeners. Meta-analyses of behavioural, electroencephalography, and neuroimaging data (37 studies) consistently show that major and minor modes elicit distinct neural and emotional responses, though these differences are heavily influenced by subjective perception. Based on our findings, we propose a framework to describe a Major-Minor Mode(l) of music perception and its correlates, incorporating individual factors such as age, expertise, cultural background, and emotional disorders. Moreover, this work explores the cultural and historical implications of the major-minor dichotomy in music, examining its origins, universality, and emotional associations across both Western and non-Western contexts. By considering individual differences and acoustic characteristics, we contribute to a broader understanding of how musical frameworks develop across cultures. Limitations, implications, and suggestions for future research are discussed, including potential clinical applications for mood regulation and emotional disorders, alongside recommendations for experimental paradigms in investigating major-minor modes.</p>","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"52 ","pages":"80-106"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142891180","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":"From SIR to delay models in epidemiology: Comment on \"Data-driven mathematical modeling approaches for COVID-19: A survey\" by Jacques Demongeot and Pierre Magal.","authors":"V Volpert","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.11.018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2024.11.018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"52 ","pages":"49-52"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142790904","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":"Building a synthetic theory of linguistic evolution? Comment on \"Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution\".","authors":"Paul Verdu","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.11.020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2024.11.020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"52 ","pages":"46-48"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142778887","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}