Publications

2026

  1. Froese, T. (2026). Quantifying what is efficacious yet not observable: Cognitive neuroscience's measurement problem has a solution. Cognitive Science, 50(1), e70170. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70170
  2. Froese, T. (2026). Sense-making reconsidered: Large language models and the blind spot of embodied cognition. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-025-10132-0
  3. Lu, Y., Ishikawa, M., Gohlke, M., Zapata-Fonseca, L., Isomura, T., Froese, T., & Tsuji, S. (2026). Gaze crossing: A new paradigm to assess social contingency and word learning during real-time infant–adult interactions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 381(1943), 20240376. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0376
  4. Shpurov, I., & Froese, T. (2026). Critical phase transition in bee movement dynamics can be modeled using a two-dimensional cellular automaton. Physical Review E, 113(2), 024405. https://doi.org/10.1103/dc35-lmgd
  5. Takada, K., Wen, W., Kasahara, S., & Froese, T. (2026). The role of regularity detection and prediction in the exploration of sense of agency. Consciousness and Cognition, 138, 103980. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2025.103980
  6. Wagemann, J., Zapata-Fonseca, L., Estelle, S., & Froese, T. (2026). Dancing together in virtual space: Experiential and agentive dimensions of perceptual crossing support microactivities and dynamic embodiment in social cognition. Cognitive Processing. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01306-4
  7. Zapata-Fonseca, L., Belhadi, A., Fossion, R., Fuchs, T., Grigoryan, A., Hayashi, S., Leenen, I., & Froese, T. (2026). (Mis)perceiving others: Toward a second-person science of schizophrenia. Cognitive Systems Research, 97, 101458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2026.101458

2025

  1. Crema, E. R., Fochesato, M., Mejía Ramón, A. G., Munson, J., & Ortman, S. G. (2025). Toward multiscalar measures of inequality in archaeology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(16), e2400700121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400700121
  2. Hashiura, K., Takada, K., Hagiwara, T., Wakisaka, S., & Minamizawa, K. (2025). "When to take the lead?" Mediation of motion intention in collaborative avatar manipulation. Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference 2025, 139–151. https://doi.org/10.1145/3745900.3746072
  3. Hayashi, S. R., Grigoryan, A., & Froese, T. (2025). Age-related differences in intrinsic neural timescales (INTs): An analysis of autocorrelation windows (ACWs) in resting-state EEG across young and older adults. BMC Neurology, 25(1), 477. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12883-025-04491-z
  4. James, M. M., & Froese, T. (2025). 4E cognition and the intention–action gap: Conceptual resources for behaviour change. Intellectica, 82, 63–93.
  5. James, M. M., Lam Loh, C., Karelin, G., Weber, N., Shpurov, I., & Froese, T. (2025). The generative role of noise in shaping social habits. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 12(1), 2562232. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2025.2562232
  6. Karelin, G. (2025). The Fermi Paradox in Artificial Life. In: ALIFE 2025: Ciphers of Life: Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2025. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.1162/ISAL.a.839
  7. Kurihara, Y., Osu, R., & Froese, T. (2025). Interpretability of inter-brain synchronization/desynchronization based on irruption theory. Cognitive Studies, 32(3), 397-411. https://doi.org/10.11225/cs.2025.020 
  8. Nakagawa, S., Armitage, D.W., Froese, T., Yang, Y., & Lagisz, M. (2025). Poor hypotheses and research waste in biology: Learning from a theory crisis in psychology. BMC Biology, 23, 33. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-025-02134-w
  9. Thompson, A. E., Munson, J., Ortman, S. G., Mejía Ramón, A. G., Feinman, G. M., Cervantes Quequezana, G., Cruz, P., Green, A. S., Lawrence, D., & Roscoe, P. (2025). Assessing neighborhoods, wealth differentials, and perceived inequality in preindustrial societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(16), e2400699121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400699121
  10. Weber, N., Guckelsberger, C., & Froese, T. (2025). Untapped potential in self-optimization of Hopfield networks: The creativity of unsupervised learning. Artificial Life, 31(4), 435–464. https://doi.org/10.1162/artl.a.10

2024

  1. Estelle, S., Uhlig, K., Zapata-Fonseca, L., Lerique, S., Morrissey, B., Sato, R., & Froese, T. (2024). An open-source perceptual crossing device for investigating brain dynamics during human interaction. PLOS ONE, 19(6), e0305283. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0305283
  2. Froese, T. (2024). Irruption and absorption: A 'black-box' framework for how mind and matter make a difference to each other. Entropy, 26(4), 288. https://doi.org/10.3390/e26040288
  3. Froese, T., Loh, C. L., & Putri, F. (2024). Inter-brain desynchronization in social interaction: A consequence of subjective involvement? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 18, 1359841. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2024.1359841
  4. Karelin, G. (2024). Floatiles: Self-assembly based on Cheerios effect and aperiodic monotiles. In: ALIFE 2024: Proceedings of the 2024 Artificial Life Conference. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00757
  5. Lam, A., Froese, T., & Schütz, C. G. (2024). Insight deficits in substance use disorders through the lens of double bookkeeping. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 31(4), 365–378. https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2024.a948894
  6. Sheets, P. D., & Mejía Ramón, A. G. (2024). Following the El Silencio processional path eastward. Vínculos, 44(1–2), 25–38.
  7. Shpurov, I., Froese, T., & Chialvo, D. R. (2024). Beehive scale-free emergent dynamics. Scientific Reports, 14, 13404. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-64219-w
  8. Shpurov, I., Froese, T., & Ikegami, T. (2024). Football as foraging? Movements by individual players and whole teams exhibit Lévy walk dynamics. Complexity, 2024(1), 3196780. https://doi.org/10.1155/cplx/3196780

2023

  1. Froese, R., Coro, G., Palomares, M. L. D., Bailly, N., Scotti, M., Froese, T., Garilao, C., & Pauly, D. (2023). A simple framework for the exploration of functional biodiversity. Cybium, 47(3), 271–286.
  2. Froese, T. (2023). Irruption theory: A novel conceptualization of the enactive account of motivated activity. Entropy, 25(5), 748. https://doi.org/10.3390/e25050748
  3. Froese, T., & Karelin, G. (2023). The enactive account of motivated activity and the hard problem of efficacy (HPE): Artificial life meets the physics of life. In: ALIFE 2023: Ghost in the Machine: Proceedings of the 2023 Artificial Life Conference. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00619
  4. Froese, T., Weber, N., Shpurov, I., & Ikegami, T. (2023). From autopoiesis to self-optimization: Toward an enactive model of biological regulation. Biosystems, 230, 104959. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.104959
  5. Hermans, K. S. F. M., Kirtley, O. J., Kasanova, Z., Achterhof, R., Hagemann, N., Hiekkaranta, A. P., Lecei, A., Zapata-Fonseca, L., Lafit, G., Fossion, R., Froese, T., & Myin-Germeys, I. (2023). Ecological and convergent validity of experimentally and dynamically assessed capacity for social contingency detection using the perceptual crossing experiment in adolescence. Assessment, 30(4), 1109–1124. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911221083613
  6. James, M. M. (2023). Enacting ontological design: A vocabulary of change from organisms to organizations. In D. Secchi, R. Gahrn-Andersen, & S. J. Cowley (Eds.), Organizational cognition: The theory of social organizing (pp. 259–280). Routledge.
  7. James, M. M., & Leader, J. F. (2023). Do digital hugs work? Re-embodying our social lives online with digital tact. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 910174. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.910174
  8. James, M. M., Koshkina, N., & Froese, T. (2023). From tech to tact: Emotion dysregulation in online communication during the COVID-19 pandemic. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 22(5), 1163–1194. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-023-09916-z
  9. Munson, J., Scholnick, J., Mejía Ramón, A. G., & Paiz Aragón, L. (2023). Beyond house size: Alternative estimates of wealth inequality in the ancient Maya Lowlands. Ancient Mesoamerica, 34(3), e8. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536123000044
  10. Sangati, E., Lobo, L., Estelle, S., Sangati, F., Tavassoli, S., & Froese, T. (2023). Uncovering the role of intention in active and passive perception. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45, 663–670. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wj762mq
  11. Takada, K., Kumasaki, N., Froese, T., Shibata, K., Nishida, J., & Kasahara, S. (2023). ShadowClones: An interface to maintain a multiple sense of body-space coordination in multiple visual perspectives. Augmented Humans Conference (pp. 171–178). https://doi.org/10.1145/3582700.3582706
  12. Weber, N., Koch, W., Erdem, O., & Froese, T. (2023). On the use of associative memory in Hopfield networks designed to solve propositional satisfiability problems. 2023 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) (pp. 1352–1358). https://doi.org/10.1109/SSCI52147.2023.10371918
  13. Weber, N., Koch, W., & Froese, T. (2023). Scaling up the self-optimization model by means of on-the-fly computation of weights. 2022 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) (pp. 1276–1282). https://doi.org/10.1109/ssci51031.2022.10022074

2022

  1. Froese, T. (2022). Scientific observation is socio-materially augmented perception: Toward a participatory realism. Philosophies, 7(2), Article 37. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7020037
  2. Hermans, K. S. F. M., Kirtley, O. J., Kasanova, Z., Achterhof, R., Hagemann, N., Hiekkaranta, A. P., Lecei, A., Zapata-Fonseca, L., Lafit, G., Fossion, R., Froese, T., & Myin-Germeys, I. (2022). Capacity for social contingency detection continues to develop across adolescence. Social Development, 31(3), 530–548. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12567
  3. James, M. M., Rodrigues, J., Montoya, M., Koshkina, N., Sangati, F., Sangati, E., Ratcliffe, M., Carel, H., & Froese, T. (2022). The pandemic experience survey II: A second corpus of subjective reports of life under social restrictions during COVID-19 in the UK, Japan, and Mexico. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, 913096. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.913096
  4. Keshmiri, S., Sangati, F., & Sangati, E. (2022). Information integration in division of labor: Validation of earlier findings. In Proceedings of the Joint Symposium of AROB-ISBC-SWARM 2022 (pp. 24–29). International Society of Artificial Life and Robotics.
  5. Lerique, S. (2022). Embodied rationality through game theoretic glasses: An empirical point of contact. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 815691. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.815691
  6. Loh, C. L., & Froese, T. (2022). Prospects of inter-brain synchronization with a virtual agent: Preliminary considerations. In Proceedings of the Joint Symposium of AROB-ISBC-SWARM 2022 (pp. 237–242). International Society of Artificial Life and Robotics.
  7. Mejía Ramón, A. G., & Froese, T. (2022). Un monumento teotihuacano al dios de las tormentas con tocado de signo del año en el santuario de Tlaloc. Mexicon, 44(5), 135–140. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48769622
  8. Pescador Canales, C., & Mojica, L. (2022). Making us autonomous: The enactive normativity of morality. Topoi, 41(2), 257–274. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-022-09795-0
  9. Shimizu, K., Ienaga, N., Takada, K., Sugimoto, M., & Kasahara, S. (2022). Human latent metrics: Perceptual and cognitive response correlates to distance in GAN latent space for facial images. In ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2022 (pp. 1–10). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3548814.3551460
  10. Shpurov, I., & Froese, T. (2022). Evidence of critical dynamics in movements of bees inside a hive. Entropy, 24(12), 1840. https://doi.org/10.3390/e24121840

2021

  1. Baranski, A., & Froese, T. (2021). Efficient spike timing dependent plasticity rule for complex-valued neurons. In ALIFE 2021: The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life (Article 76). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00406
  2. Bennett, D., Dix, A., Eslambolchilar, P., Feng, F., Froese, T., Kostakos, V., Lerique, S., & van Berkel, N. (2021). Emergent interaction: Complexity, dynamics, and enaction in HCI. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–7). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3441321
  3. Froese, T., Broome, M., Carel, H., Humpston, C., Malpass, A., Mori, T., Ratcliffe, M., Rodrigues, J., & Sangati, F. (2021). The pandemic experience: A corpus of subjective reports on life during the first wave of COVID-19 in the UK, Japan, and Mexico. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, 725506. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.725506
  4. Froese, T., & Krueger, J. (2021). Lost in the socially extended mind: Genuine intersubjectivity and disturbed self-other demarcation in schizophrenia. In C. Tewes & G. Stanghellini (Eds.), Time and body: Phenomenological and psychopathological approaches (pp. 318–340). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108776660.025
  5. Loh, C. L., & Froese, T. (2021). An oscillator model for interbrain synchrony: Slow interactional rhythms entrain fast neural activity. In 2021 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) (pp. 1–8). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CIBCB49929.2021.9562779
  6. Mojica, L. (2021). The enactive naturalization of normativity: From self-maintenance to situated interactions. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 43(4), Article 127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00479-3
  7. Mojica, L., & Gastelum Vargas, M. (2021). The affective and normative intentionality of skilled performance: A radical embodied approach. Synthese, 199(3–4), 8205–8230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03159-8
  8. Reséndiz-Benhumea, G. M., Sangati, E., Sangati, F., Keshmiri, S., & Froese, T. (2021). Shrunken social brains? A minimal model of the role of social interaction in neural complexity. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 15, 634085. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2021.634085
  9. Sangati, E., Keshmiri, S., & Sangati, F. (2021). Evolution of neural complexity in division of labor tasks. In ALIFE 2021: The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life (Article 88). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00422
  10. Sangati, E., Slors, M., Müller, B. C. N., & van Rooij, I. (2021). Joint Simon effect in movement trajectories. PLOS ONE, 16(12), Article e0261735. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261735
  11. Shpurov, I., & Froese, T. (2021). Combining self-critical dynamics and Hebbian learning to explain utility of bursty dynamics in neural networks. In 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) (pp. 1–6). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/SSCI50451.2021.9660026

2020

  1. Dotov, D., & Froese, T. (2020). Dynamic interactive artificial intelligence: Sketches for a future AI based on human-machine interaction. In ALIFE 2020: The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life (pp. 139–145). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00350
  2. Dudysová, D., Janků, K., Šmotek, M., Saifutdinova, E., Kopřivová, J., Bušková, J., Mander, B. A., Brunovský, M., Zach, P., Korčák, J., Andrashko, V., Viktorinová, M., Tylš, F., Bravermanová, A., Froese, T., Páleníček, T., & Horáček, J. (2020). The effects of daytime psilocybin administration on sleep: Implications for antidepressant action. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 11, 602590. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2020.602590
  3. Froese, T., & Ortiz-Garin, G. U. (2020). Where is the action in perception? An exploratory study with a haptic sensory substitution device. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 809. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00809
  4. Froese, T., Zapata-Fonseca, L., Leenen, I., & Fossion, R. (2020). The feeling is mutual: Clarity of haptics-mediated social perception is not associated with the recognition of the other, only with recognition of each other. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14, 560567. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.560567
  5. Heras-Escribano, M. (2020). The evolutionary role of affordances: Ecological psychology, niche construction, and natural selection. Biology & Philosophy, 35(2), Article 30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-020-09747-1
  6. Hermans, K. S. F. M., Kasanova, Z., Zapata-Fonseca, L., Lafit, G., Fossion, R., Froese, T., & Myin-Germeys, I. (2020). Investigating real-time social interaction in pairs of adolescents with the perceptual crossing experiment. Behavior Research Methods, 52, 1929–1938. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01378-4
  7. Morales, A., & Froese, T. (2020). The distribution of inhibitory neurons in the C. elegans connectome facilitates self-optimization of coordinated neural activity. In 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) (pp. 1195–1201). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/SSCI47803.2020.9308562
  8. Morales, A., & Froese, T. (2020). Unsupervised learning facilitates neural coordination across the functional clusters of the C. elegans connectome. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 7, 40. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2020.00040
  9. Ramírez-Vizcaya, S., & Froese, T. (2020). Agents of habit: Refining the artificial life route to artificial intelligence. In ALIFE 2020: The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life (pp. 78–86). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00298
  10. Reséndiz-Benhumea, G. M., Sangati, E., & Froese, T. (2020). Levels of coupling in dyadic interaction: An analysis of neural and behavioral complexity. In 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) (pp. 2250–2256). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/SSCI47803.2020.9308429
  11. Sangati, E., & Hofmann, S. M. (2020). The role of co-representations in joint tracking. In ALIFE 2020: The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life (pp. 526–534). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00259
  12. Travieso, D., Lobo, L., de Paz, C., Langelaar, T. E., Ibáñez-Gijón, J., & Jacobs, D. M. (2020). Dynamic touch as common ground for enactivism and ecological psychology. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1257. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01257
  13. Valencia, A. L., & Froese, T. (2020). What binds us? Inter-brain neural synchronization and its implications for theories of human consciousness. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2020(1), niaa010. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niaa010