Replication and emergence in cultural evolution: sequential or entwined?: Comment on “Replication and emergence in cultural transmission” by Monica Tamariz
Publication date: Available online 7 August 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Andrew Whiten (Source: Physics of Life Reviews)
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - August 9, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Neurocomputational theories of homeostatic control
Publication date: Available online 19 July 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Oliver J. Hulme, Tobias Morville, Boris GutkinAbstractHomeostasis is a problem for all living agents. It entails predictively regulating internal states within the bounds compatible with survival in order to maximise fitness. This can be achieved physiologically, through complex hierarchies of autonomic regulation, but it must also be achieved via behavioural control, both reactive and proactive. Here we briefly review some of the major theories of homeostatic control and their historical cognates, addressing how they tackle the optimi...
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - August 6, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Brain's Common Signature Across Various Neuronal and Mental Features: Comment on “Is temporo-spatial dynamics the ‘common currency’ of brain and mind?” by Georg Northoff et al.
Publication date: Available online 1 August 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): J. Shashi Kiran Reddy (Source: Physics of Life Reviews)
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - August 2, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Form and Function in the Imitative Learning of Language: Comment on “Replication and emergence in cultural transmission” by Monica Tamariz
Publication date: Available online 29 July 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Richard Moore (Source: Physics of Life Reviews)
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - July 30, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Phenotypes in hemispheric functional segregation as by-products of the evolution of lateralization population structure: Comment on “Phenotypes in hemispheric functional segregation? Perspectives and challenges” by Guy Vingerhoets
Publication date: Available online 29 July 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Giorgio Vallortigara (Source: Physics of Life Reviews)
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - July 30, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Understanding segregated laterality phenotypes needs a comparative perspective on both genotype and envirotype: Comment on “Phenotypes in hemispheric functional segregation? Perspectives and challenges” by Guy Vingerhoets
Publication date: Available online 22 July 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Sebastian Ocklenburg, Onur Güntürkün (Source: Physics of Life Reviews)
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - July 24, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
One size fits all does not apply to brain lateralisation: Comment on “Phenotypes in hemispheric functional segregation? Perspectives and challenges” by Guy Vingerhoets
Publication date: Available online 22 July 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, Patrick Friedrich, Stephanie J. Forkel (Source: Physics of Life Reviews)
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - July 24, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Neuro-computational theories of homeostatic control
Publication date: Available online 19 July 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Oliver J. Hulme, Tobias Morville, Boris GutkinAbstractHomeostasis is a problem for all living agents. It entails predictively regulating internal states within the bounds compatible with survival in order to maximise fitness. This can be achieved physiologically, through complex hierarchies of autonomic regulation, but it must also be achieved via behavioural control, both reactive and proactive. Here we briefly review some of the major theories of homeostatic control and their historical cognates, addressing how they tackle the optimi...
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - July 20, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Evolutionary understanding of the human mind and learning – in accordance with transactional naturalism and methodological relationalism
Publication date: Available online 19 July 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Osmo Kivinen, Tero PiiroinenAbstractThe approach to the evolution of human culture and mind suggested in this article represents transactional naturalism combined with methodological relationalism. In transactions, the organism changes the environment and vice versa. Transactional naturalism conceptualizes the human mind and awareness in a relational vein, as coevolving with the human socio-cultural niche, much like enactive and extensive theories of mind. The approach is in stark contrast with gene-centered and psychologizing nativist...
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - July 20, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Spectral peculiarity and criticality of a human connectome
Publication date: Available online 16 July 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): N. Pospelov, S. Nechaev, K. Anokhin, O. Valba, V. Avetisov, A. GorskyAbstractWe have performed the comparative spectral analysis of structural connectomes for various organisms using open-access data. Our results indicate new peculiar features of connectomes of higher organisms. We found that the spectral density of adjacency matrices of human connectome has maximal deviation from the one of randomized network, compared to other organisms. Considering the network evolution induced by the preference of 3-cycles formation, we discovered ...
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - July 17, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
In search of the biological roots of typical and atypical human brain asymmetry: Comment on “Phenotypes in hemispheric functional segregation? Perspectives and challenges” by Guy Vingerhoets
Publication date: Available online 16 July 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Clyde Francks (Source: Physics of Life Reviews)
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - July 17, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Physarum inspires research beyond biomimetic algorithms: Reply to comments on “Does being multi-headed make you better at solving problems?”
Publication date: Available online 11 July 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Chao Gao, Chen Liu, Daniel Schenz, Xuelong Li, Zili Zhang, Marko Jusup, Zhen Wang, Madeleine Beekman, Toshiyuki NakagakiAbstractWe look at a recent expansion of Physarum research from inspiring biomimetic algorithms to serving as a model organism in the evolutionary study of perception, memory, learning, and decision making. (Source: Physics of Life Reviews)
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - July 12, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Mind as a shadow of neurodynamics
Publication date: Available online 9 July 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Włodzisław Duch (Source: Physics of Life Reviews)
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - July 10, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
A never-ending story in the sky: The secrets of chemical evolution
Publication date: Available online 5 July 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Cristina Puzzarini, Vincenzo BaroneAbstractCosmic evolution is the tale of progressive transition from simplicity to complexity. The newborn universe started with the simplest atoms formed after the Big Bang and proceeded toward the formation of the so-called ‘astronomical complex organic molecules’ (aCOMs), most of them showing a clear prebiotic character. Understanding the chemical evolution of the universe is one of the main aims of Astrochemistry, with the starting point being the knowledge whether a molecule is present in the a...
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - July 6, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Words as social tools: Flexibility, situatedness, language and sociality in abstract concepts: Reply to comments on “Words as social tools: Language, sociality and inner grounding in abstract concepts”
Publication date: Available online 2 July 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Anna M. Borghi, Laura Barca, Ferdinand Binkofski, Cristiano Castelfranchi, Giovanni Pezzulo, Luca Tummolini (Source: Physics of Life Reviews)
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - July 3, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
