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{"title":"Parrondo's paradox reveals counterintuitive wins in biology and decision making in society","authors":"Tao Wen ,&nbsp;Kang Hao Cheong","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Parrondo's paradox refers to the paradoxical phenomenon of combining two losing strategies in a certain manner to obtain a winning outcome. It has been applied to uncover unexpected outcomes across various disciplines, particularly at different spatiotemporal scales within ecosystems. In this article, we provide a comprehensive review of recent developments in Parrondo's paradox within the interdisciplinary realm of the physics of life, focusing on its significant applications across biology and the broader life sciences. Specifically, we examine its relevance from genetic pathways and phenotypic regulation, to intercellular interaction within multicellular organisms, and finally to the competition between populations and species in ecosystems. This phenomenon, spanning multiple biological domains and scales, enhances our understanding of the unified characteristics of life and reveals that adaptability in a drastically changing environment, rather than the inherent excellence of a trait, underpins survival in the process of evolution. We conclude by summarizing our findings and discussing future research directions that hold promise for advancing the field.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 33-59"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142243904","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 neural correlates of consciousness studies and the mystery of the human mind-a commentary on \"Beyond task response - Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness\" by G. Northoff, F. Zilio & J. Zhang","authors":"Karl Erik Sandsten ,&nbsp;Josef Parnas","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.07.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.07.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"50 ","pages":"Pages 209-210"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141987114","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 follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution","authors":"Balthasar Bickel ,&nbsp;Anne-Lise Giraud ,&nbsp;Klaus Zuberbühler ,&nbsp;Carel P. van Schaik","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As one of the most specific, yet most diverse of human behaviors, language is shaped by both genomic and extra-genomic evolution. Sharing methods and models between these modes of evolution has significantly advanced our understanding of language and inspired generalized theories of its evolution. Progress is hampered, however, by the fact that the extra-genomic evolution of languages, i.e. linguistic evolution, maps only partially to other forms of evolution. Contrasting it with the biological evolution of eukaryotes and the cultural evolution of technology as the best understood models, we show that linguistic evolution is special by yielding a stationary dynamic rather than stable solutions, and that this dynamic allows the use of language change for social differentiation while maintaining its global adaptiveness. Linguistic evolution furthermore differs from technological evolution by requiring vertical transmission, allowing the reconstruction of phylogenies; and it differs from eukaryotic biological evolution by foregoing a genotype vs phenotype distinction, allowing deliberate and biased change. Recognising these differences will improve our empirical tools and open new avenues for analyzing how linguistic, cultural, and biological evolution interacted with each other when language emerged in the hominin lineage. Importantly, our framework will help to cope with unprecedented scientific and ethical challenges that presently arise from how rapid cultural evolution impacts language, most urgently from interventional clinical tools for language disorders, potential epigenetic effects of technology on language, artificial intelligence and linguistic communicators, and global losses of linguistic diversity and identity. Beyond language, the distinctions made here allow identifying variation in other forms of biological and cultural evolution, developing new perspectives for empirical research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"50 ","pages":"Pages 211-225"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1571064524000939/pdfft?md5=b509f3258595a0bdab942a98d2a9941e&pid=1-s2.0-S1571064524000939-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141994989","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}

{"title":"The affective grounds of the mind. The Affective Pertinentization (APER) model","authors":"Sergio Salvatore ,&nbsp;Arianna Palmieri ,&nbsp;Raffaele De Luca Picione ,&nbsp;Vincenzo Bochicchio ,&nbsp;Matteo Reho ,&nbsp;Maria Rita Serio ,&nbsp;Giampaolo Salvatore","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.07.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.07.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The paper presents the Affective Pertinentization model (APER), a theory of the affect and its role it plays in meaning-making. APER views the affect as the basic form of making sense of reality. It consists of a global, bipolar pattern of neurophysiological activity through which the organism maps the instant-by-instant variation of its environment. Such a pattern of neuropsychological activity is constituted by a plurality of bipolar affective dimensions, each of which maps a component of the environmental variability. The affect has a pluri-componential structure defining a multidimensional affective landscape that foregrounds (i.e., makes pertinent) a certain pattern of facets of the environment (e.g., its pleasantness/unpleasantness) relevant to survival, while backgrounding the others. Doing so, the affect grounds the following cognitive processes. Accordingly, meaning-making can be modeled as a function of the dimensionality of the affective landscape. The greater the dimensionality of the affective landscape, the more differentiated the system of meaning is.</p><p>Following a brief review of current theories pertaining to the affect, the paper proceeds discussing the APER's core tenets – the multidimensional view of the affect, its semiotic function, and the concepts of Affective Landscape and Phase Space of Meaning. The paper then proceeds deepening the relationship between the APER model and other theories, highlighting how the APER succeeds in framing original conceptualizations of several challenging issues – the intertwinement between affect and sensory modalities, the manner in which the mind constitutes the content of the experience, the determinants of psychopathology, the intertwinement of mind and culture, and the spreading of affective forms of thinking and behaving in society. Finally, the unsolved issues and future developments of the model are briefly envisaged.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"50 ","pages":"Pages 143-165"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141900439","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":"Homo erectus’ slowly broadening Zone of Bounded Surprisals opened the way to technological culture","authors":"Héctor M. Manrique ,&nbsp;Karl J. Friston ,&nbsp;Michael J. Walker","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.07.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.07.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"50 ","pages":"Pages 137-142"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141847356","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":"Prestimulus alpha phase, not only power, modulates conscious perception. Comment on “Beyond task response—Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness” by G. Northoff, F. Zilio & J. Zhang","authors":"Kristina Krasich ,&nbsp;Marty G. Woldorff ,&nbsp;Felipe De Brigard ,&nbsp;Walter Sinnott-Armstrong ,&nbsp;Liad Mudrik","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.07.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.07.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"50 ","pages":"Pages 123-125"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141786948","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":"Social pain. Comment on ‘Environmental factors and their impact on chronic pain development and maintenance’ by Morena Brazil Sant'Anna, Louise Faggionato Kimura, Willians Fernando Vieira, Vanessa Olzon Zambelli, Leonardo Santana Novaes, Natália Gabriele Hösch, Gisele Picolo","authors":"Sarah F. Allen ,&nbsp;Christina M. van der Feltz-Cornelis","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.07.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.07.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"50 ","pages":"Pages 120-122"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141699842","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":"Heritability of white matter in twins: A diffusion neuroimaging review","authors":"Giovanni Videtta ,&nbsp;Chiara Colli ,&nbsp;Letizia Squarcina ,&nbsp;Corrado Fagnani ,&nbsp;Emanuela Medda ,&nbsp;Paolo Brambilla ,&nbsp;Giuseppe Delvecchio","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.07.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.07.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Diffusion neuroimaging has emerged as an essential non-invasive technique to explore in vivo microstructural characteristics of white matter (WM), whose integrity allows complex behaviors and cognitive abilities. Studying the factors contributing to inter-individual variability in WM microstructure can provide valuable insight into structural and functional differences of brain among individuals. Genetic influence on this variation has been largely investigated in twin studies employing different measures derived from diffusion neuroimaging. In this context, we performed a comprehensive literature search across PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science of original twin studies focused on the heritability of WM. Overall, our results highlighted a consistent heritability of diffusion indices (i.e., fractional anisotropy, mean, axial and radial diffusivity), and network topology among twins. The genetic influence resulted prominent in frontal and occipital regions, in the limbic system, and in commissural fibers. To enhance the understanding of genetic influence on WM microstructure further studies in less heterogeneous experimental settings, encompassing all diffusion indices, are warranted.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"50 ","pages":"Pages 126-136"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141696442","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":"A decade of thermostatted kinetic theory models for complex active matter living systems","authors":"Carlo Bianca","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.06.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.06.015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the last decade, the thermostatted kinetic theory has been proposed as a general paradigm for the modeling of complex systems of the active matter and, in particular, in biology. Homogeneous and inhomogeneous frameworks of the thermostatted kinetic theory have been employed for modeling phenomena that are the result of interactions among the elements, called active particles, composing the system. Functional subsystems contain heterogeneous active particles that are able to perform the same task, called activity. Active matter living systems usually operate out-of-equilibrium; accordingly, a mathematical thermostat is introduced in order to regulate the fluctuations of the activity of particles. The time evolution of the functional subsystems is obtained by introducing the conservative and the nonconservative interactions which represent activity-transition, natural birth/death, induced proliferation/destruction, and mutation of the active particles. This review paper is divided in two parts: In the first part the review deals with the mathematical frameworks of the thermostatted kinetic theory that can be found in the literature of the last decade and a unified approach is proposed; the second part of the review is devoted to the specific mathematical models derived within the thermostatted kinetic theory presented in the last decade for complex biological systems, such as wound healing diseases, the recognition process and the learning dynamics of the human immune system, the hiding-learning dynamics and the immunoediting process occurring during the cancer-immune system competition. Future research perspectives are discussed from the theoretical and application viewpoints, which suggest the important interplay among the different scholars of the applied sciences and the desire of a multidisciplinary approach or rather a theory for the modeling of every active matter system.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"50 ","pages":"Pages 72-97"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141603069","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":"Beyond task response - A key to the subjective aspects of consciousness","authors":"Moti Salti ,&nbsp;Omer Gabay ,&nbsp;Dafna Bergerbest","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2024.07.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2024.07.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"50 ","pages":"Pages 98-99"},"PeriodicalIF":13.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141607281","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}