Read us

(articles for personal use only) [Google Scholar here]

[107] La ciencia del último umbral [my first book; in Spanish]
Alex Gomez-Marin
Editorial Planeta (2025)

[106] A radically organic wolrdview turns 100
Alex Gomez-Marin
Science, in press (2025)

[105] Materialism is holding back science
Alex Gomez-Marin
Institute of Arts and Ideas, September (2025)

[104] A stroll beyond the confines of naturalism
Alex Gomez-Marin
Commentary submitted to Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2025)

[103] All things are full of gods (review)
Alex Gomez-Marin
Nature 643, 630 (2025)

[102] A Taxonomy of Altered States of Conciousness Etzel Cardeña, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana, Katja Valli, Pablo Barttfeld, Alex Gomez-Marín, Bruce Greyson, V. K. Kumar, Steven Laureys, Tanya Marie Luhrmann, Andrew Newberg, Katrin H. Preller, Frank W. Putnam, Enzo Tagliazucchi, Roger Walsh, Olivia Carter, and David Yaden. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 1-19 (2025)

[101] What we owe the present
Alex Gomez-Marin
Science 388(6744):256 (2025)

[100] A science of consciousness beyond pseudo-science and pseudo-consciousness
Alex Gomez-Marin, Anil Seth
Nature Neuroscience (2025)

[99] The false religion of transhumanism
Alex Gomez-Marin
Institute of Arts and Ideas, November (2024)

[98] Manifiesto por una medicina “imposible”
Alex Gomez-Marin
Revista de Salud y Medicina Integrativa 3(2):9 (2024)

[97] The life of “ideas worth spreading”
Alex Gomez-Marin
Science 386(6718): 155 (2024)

[96] Preaching dogma in the name of science
Alex Gomez-Marin
Institute of Arts and Ideas, September (2024) [audio-visual]

[95] The stairway to transhumanist heaven
Alex Gomez-Marin
Nature 632: 497-498 (2024)

[94] Seeing the consciousness forest for the trees
Alex Gomez-Marin
Institute of Arts and Ideas, July (2024)

[93] The Central Role of the Individual in the History of Brains
Asif A Ghazanfar and Alex Gomez-Marin
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105744:1-12 (2024)

[92] Experiencing Science
Alex Gomez-Marin
Science 383(6686): 955 (2024)

[91] Materialism’s terminal lucidity
Alex Gomez-Marin
Journal of Consciousness Studies, 31(1-2):242-252 (2024)

[90] The consciousness of neuroscience
Alex Gomez-Marin
eNeuro 10(11):1-5 (2023)

[89] At the edges of consciousness
Alex Gomez-Marin
Pari Perspectives 16:6-8 (2023)

[88] Galileo’s comet rebuttal
Alex Gomez-Marin
Science 382(6667): 162 (2023)

[87] David Bohm’s unfinished revolution
Alex Gomez-Marin
Science 381(6657): 489 (2023)

[86] Seeing without Eyes
Alex Gomez-Marin
Winner essay of the Linda G. O’Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize, IONS (2023)

[85] The nature of visual perception: Could a longstanding debate be resolved empirically?
Alex Gomez-Marin and Rupert Sheldrake
Journal of Mind and Behavior 44(1-2):1-14 (2023)

[84] Towards a trans-materialist science of the sacred
Bernard Carr and Alex Gomez-Marin
Pari Perspectives 15: 52-61 (2023)

[83] Six impossible worlds before breakfast
Alex Gomez-Marin
Current Biology 33(10): R386-R389 (2023)

[82] Making sense of the sacred
Alex Gomez-Marin
Science 380(6640):44 (2023)

[81] Cuentos por Contar
Alex Gomez-Marin
Mundos por Venir, M. A. Baixauli (ed.) La documental edicions & UPV (2023)

[80] Our voice is better heard in silence
Alex Gomez-Marin
Pari Perspectives 14:9 (2023)

[79] Science in the age of podcasts
Alex Gomez-Marin
Science 379(6630): 338 (2023)

[78] What happens with the mind when the brain dies?
Alex Gomez-Marin
Organisms: Journal of Biological Sciences 6(1): 51-53 (2023)

[77] Universes hidden in broad daylight
Alex Gomez-Marin and Ignasi Torrent
CCCB Lab, Cultural Research and Innovation (2023) [CAT] [ESP]

[76] The contribution of Rafael Lorente de Nó to the birth of Cybernetics
Juan Manuel Espinosa-Sanchez, Alex Gomez-Marin, Fernando de Castro
The Neuroscientist, 5:10738584231179932 (2023)

[75] Transcending reductionism in neuroscience
Alex Gomez-Marin
Science 378(6620): 606 (2022)

[74] ¿Ver para creer?
Alex Gomez-Marin
Prólogo al nuevo libro de Tània Agorreta & Jordi Imbert, Intuitu Editions (2022)

[73] Ciencia de la Conciencia: Un Regreso al Futuro
Alex Gomez-Marin
El Cultural (No 375), La Razón de México (2022) [PDF]

[72] A virtual library for behavioral performance in standard conditions
Henry Szechtman, Anna Dvorkin-Gheva, Alex Gomez-Marin
GigaScience 11:1-41 (2022)

[71] The motor Wisdom of the Crowd
Gabriel Madirolas, Regina Zaghi-Lara, Alex Gomez-Marin, Alfonso Pérez-Escudero
Journal of the Royal Society Interface 19: 20220480 (2022)

[70] Rupert Sheldrake’s Quest for Wholeness in Understanding Consciousness
Alex Gomez-Marin
Paradigm Explorer, No139:15-18, Journal of the Scientific & Medical Network (2022)

[69] Cien años de desencuentro: Einstein y Bergson
Alex Gomez-Marin
La Maleta de Portbou 54, Septiembre-Octubre (2022)

[68] An exploration of real, virtual, and possible minds
Alex Gomez-Marin
Science 377(6603): 268 (2022)

[67] Angular speed should be avoided when assessing the speed-curvature power law of movement
Adam Matic & Alex Gomez-Marin
bioRxiv 2022.06.27.497695 (2022)

[66] Nuestro cerebro no es (como) un ordenador
Juan Arnau & Alex Gómez-Marín
Ideas, Análisis-Ensayo, El País (2022) [PDF]

[65] Materialists’ best guess?
Alex Gomez-Marin
Journal of Consciousness Studies 29:(5-6) 201-207 (2022)

[64] A Stroll Through the Worlds and Minds of Fungi
Alex Gomez-Marin
The Journal of Mind and Behavior 43(1):67-78 (2022)

[63] Metaphors Neuroscientists Live By
Alex Gomez-Marin
Frontiers in Computer Science 4:890531 (2022)

[62] “In Science We Trust”
Juan Arnau y Alex Gomez-Marin
Claves de Razón Práctica 282: 100-105 (2022)

[61] Drawing the mind, one neuron at a time
Alex Gomez-Marin
Science 375(6586): 1237 (2022)

[60] Emergent behavior in animal-inspired robotics
Alex Gomez-Marin, Yisi Zhang
Frontiers in Neurorobotics 16, 861831: 1-2 (2022)

[59] Making life and mind as clear as possible, but not clearer
Alex Gomez-Marin
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45:e196 (2022)

[58] Meaning and structural dynamics in poetry: a computational perspective
Alex Gomez-Marin
PsyArXiv (2022)

[XX] Cognition, Collective Behvior and Consciousness
Alex Gomez-Marin, Luis M Martínez, Cristina Márquez, Sergi Valverde, Emilio Hernández-García, Cristóbal López, Claudio Mirasso, M Dolores del Castillo, Eduardo Rocón, Felipe Criado-Boado, Santiago Canals, Frederic Bartumeus.
White Paper 5: Brain, Mind & Behavior 3: 41-57. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (2021)

[57] Embodying consciousness
Alex Gomez-Marin
Science 374(6569): 696 (2021)

[56] The False Problem of Consciousness
Alex Gomez-Marin, Juan Arnau
PhilSci Archive 16804 (2021)

[55] Elbow angle and stiffness control by twisted string actuators and nested feedack
Adam Matić, Alex Gomez-Marin
Osaka University Knowledge Archive (2021)

[54] Hierarchical control of visually-guided movements in a 3D-printed robot arm
Adam Matić, Pavle Valerjev, Alex Gomez-Marin
Frontiers in Neurorobotics 15(755723), 1-18 (2021)

[53] Los hábitos del cosmos
Alex Gomez-Marin
Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, Junio (2021)

[52] Facing biology’s open questions
Alex Gomez-Marin
BioEssays e2100055 (2021)

[51] If the brain is the answer, what was the question?
Alex Gomez-Marin
Current Biology 31:5 R221-R223 (2021)

[50] Promisomics and the short-circuiting of mind
Alex Gomez-Marin
eNeuro 8 (2) ENEURO.0521-20.2021 (2021)

[49] El laberinto de las causas
Juan Arnau & Alex Gomez-Marin
Claves de Razón Práctica 276: 116-121 (2021)

[48] When the part mirrors the whole: interactions beyond “simple location”
Alex Gomez-Marin & Juan Arnau
Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 11:523885 (2021)

[47] Does your brain exist when unperceived?
Alex Gomez-Marin
Constructivist Foundations 16 (1):124-128 (2020)

[46] Evolution and what the intellect makes of it
Alex Gomez-Marin
in S. Koutroufinis & R. Pikarski (eds.), Unprecedented Evolution (link), Process Century Press (2020)

[45] Long-term memory of real-world episodes is independent of recency effects: magic tricks as ecological tasks
David Bestue, Luis Martinez, Alex Gomez-Marin, Miguel A. Gea, Jordi Camí
Heliyon 6: e05260 (2020)

[44] Geometric purity, kinematic scaling and dynamic optimality in drawing movements beyond ellipses
Adam Matic, Alex Gomez-Marin
Journal of Mathematical Psychology 99:102453 (2020)

[43] On the Cognitive Bases of Illusionism
Jordi Camí, Alex Gomez-Marin, Luis M. Martínez
PeerJ 8:e9712 (2020)

In the media: · El Confidencial | · El País | · El País

[42] Science as Magic
Alex Gomez-Marin, Luis M. Martínez, Jordi Camí
Organisms. Journal of Biological Sciences, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 90-101 (2020)

[41] Bergson today
Alex Gomez-Marin
Theory, Culture and Society 37 (7-8) 435-440 (2020)

[40] A history of the metaphorical brain
Alex Gomez-Marin
Science 368 (6489), 375-375 (2020)

[39] La mente en el laboratorio
Juan Arnau & Alex Gomez-Marin
Claves de Razón Práctica. Número 269, páginas 88-97, Marzo-Abril (2020)

In the media: RNE5

[38] A context-free grammar for Caenorhabditis elegans behavior
Saurabh Gupta, Alex Gomez-Marin
bioRxiv (2019)

[37] The Blind Spot of Neuroscience
Alex Gomez-Marin
Organisms. Journal of Biological Sciences, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 19-23. (2019)

In the media: · TEDxMadrid

[36] The Life of Behavior
Alex Gomez-Marin & Asif A Ghazanfar
Neuron 104:1 25-36 (2019)

In the media: · Peeriodicals

[35] A clash of Umwelts: Anthropomorphism in behavioral neuroscience
Alex Gomez-Marin
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, E229 (2019)

[34] Playing magic tricks to deep neural networks untangles human deception
Regina Zaghi-Lara, Miguel Ángel Gea, Jordi Camí, Luis M Martínez, Alex Gomez-Marin
Submitted (2019)

[33] A customizable tablet app for hand movement research outside the lab
Adam Matic, Alex Gomez-Marin
Journal of Neuroscience Methods 328, 108398 (2019)

[32] The speed curvature power law of movements: a reappraisal
Myrka Zago*, Adam Matic*, Tamar Flash, Alex Gomez-Marin^, Francesco Lacquaniti^.
Experimental Brain Research 236:1, pp 69–82 (2018) (*) Co-first authors; (^) Co-lead authors

[31] A portrait of the scientist as a young artist: Or, what neuroscience can learn from dance
Alex Gomez-Marin
SciArt Magazine Vol 33 (2018)

[30] Reproducibility and replicability of rodent phenotyping in preclinical studies
Neri Kafkafi, Joseph Agassi, Elissa J Chesler, John C Crabbe, Wim E Crusio, David Eilam, Robert Gerlai, Ilan Golani, Alex Gomez-Marin, Ruth Heller, Fuad Iraqi, Iman Jaljuli, Natasha A Karp, Hugh Morgan, George Nicholson, Donald W Pfaff, Helene S Richter, Philip B Stark, Oliver Stiedl, Victoria Stodden, Lisa M Tarantino, Valter Tucci, William Valdar, Robert W Williams, Hanno Wurbel, Yoav Benjamini. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 87:218-232 (2018)

[29] Neuroscience needs behavior: correcting a reductionist bias
John W Krakauer, Asif A Ghazanfar, Alex Gomez-Marin, Malcolm A MacIver, David Poeppel
Neuron 93:3 480-490 (2017)

[28] Causal circuit explanations of behavior: Are necessity and sufficiency necessary and sufficient?
Alex Gomez-Marin
in A. Çelik and M.F. Wernet (eds.), Decoding Neural Circuit Structure and Function, Springer (2017)

In the media: · Peeriodicals |· Neurocritic

[27] The speed-curvature power law in Drosophila larval locomotion
Myrka Zago, Francesco Lacquaniti, Alex Gomez-Marin
Biology Letters 12: 20160597 (2016)

[26] Generative rules of Drosophila locomotor behavior as a candidate homology across phyla
Alex Gomez-Marin*, Efrat Oron, Anna Gakamsky, Dan Valente, Yoav Benjamini, Ilan Golani*
Scientific Reports 6, 27555 (2016) (*) Co-corresponding authors

[25] Hierarchical compression of C. elegans locomotion reveals phenotypic differences in the organization of behaviour
Alex Gomez-Marin, Greg J Stephens, André E.X. Brown
J. R. Soc. Interface 13: 20160466 (2016)

[24] Expanding perspectives on cognition in humans, animals, and machines
Alex Gomez-Marin*, Zachary F Mainen*
Current Opinion in Neurobiology 37:85–91 (2016) (*) Co-corresponding authors

[23] Mitochondrial targeting of XJB-5-131 attenuates or improves pathophysiology in HdhQ150 animals with well-developed disease phenotypes
Aris Polyzos, Amy Holt, Christopher Brown, Celica Cosme, Peter Wipf, Alex Gomez-Marin, María del R. Castro, Sylvette Ayala-Peña, and Cynthia T. McMurray
Human Molecular Genetics, 1-11 (2016)

[22] Dynamical feature extraction at the sensory periphery guides chemotaxis
Aljoscha Schulze*, Alex Gomez-Marin*, Vani J Rajendran, Gus Lott, Marco Musy, Parvez Ahammad, Ajinkya Deogade, James Sharpe, Julia Riedl, David Jarriault, Eric T Trautman, Christopher Werner, Madhusudhan Venkadesan, Shaul Druckmann, Vivek Jayaraman, Matthieu Louis
eLife 2015;4:e06694 (2015) (*) Co-main authors

In the media: · eLIFE Editor’s Choice |· El Pais |· La Vanguardia

[21] Role of the Subesophageal Zone in Sensorimotor Control of Orientation in Drosophila Larva
Ibrahim Tastekin*, Julia Riedl*, Verena Schilling-Kurz, Alex Gomez-Marin, James W. Truman, Matthieu Louis
Current Biology 25: 11 p.1448–1460 (2015) (*) Co-main authors

[20] Big behavioral data: psychology, ethology and the foundations of neuroscience
Alex Gomez-Marin, Joseph J Paton, Adam R Kampff, Rui M Costa, Zachary F Mainen
Nature Neuroscience 17, 1455–1462 (2014)

In the media: · Nature Neuroscience Editor’s Choice

[19] Multilevel control of run orientation in Drosophila larval chemotaxis
Alex Gomez-Marin*, Matthieu Louis*
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 8:38 (2014) (*) Co-corresponding authors

[18] Tools, flies and what to do next
Alex Gomez-Marin
American Institute of Physics Conf. Proc. 1510, 120 (2013)

[17] A simple method to study Drosophila leg movements during free climbing
Alex Gomez-Marin*, Bala Iyengar*
Figshare 96615 (2012) (*) Co-main authors

In the media: · YouTube

[16] Automated tracking of animal posture and movement during exploration and sensory orientation behaviors
Alex Gomez-Marin*, Nicolas Partoune, Greg J. Stephens, Matthieu Louis*
PLoS ONE 7 (8): e41642 (2012) (*) Co-corresponding authors

In the media: · Science Daily |· InfoSalus |· Cenatic |· SourceForge |· YouTube

[15] Active sensation during orientation behavior in the Drosophila larva: more sense than luck
Alex Gomez-Marin, Matthieu Louis
Current Opinion in Neurobiology 22:1-8 (2012)

[14] Active sampling and decision making in Drosophila chemotaxis
Alex Gomez-Marin, Greg J. Stephens, Matthieu. Louis
Nature Communications 2:441 (2011)

In the media: · Lukor |· Ecoticias

[13] Mechanisms of odor-tracking: multiple sensors for enhanced perception and behavior
Alex Gomez-Marin*, Brian J. Duistermars*, Mark A. Frye, Matthieu Louis
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 4:6 (2010) (*) Co-main authors

[12] Two-state ﬂashing molecular pump
Alex Gomez-Marin, Jose Maria Sancho
EuroPhysicsLetters 86, 40002 (2009)

[11] Optimal protocols for minimal work processes in underdamped stochastic thermodynamics
Alex Gomez-Marin, Tim Schmiedl, Udo Seifert
J. Chem. Phys. 129, 024114 (2008)

[10] Lower bounds on dissipation upon coarse graining
Alex Gomez-Marin, Juan R. Parrondo, Christian Van den Broeck
Phys. Rev. E 78, 011107 (2008)

[9] The footprints of irreversibility
Alex Gomez-Marin, Juan R. Parrondo, Christian Van den Broeck
EuroPhysics Letters 82, 50002 (2008)

· Editor’s Choice

[8] Brownian pump powered by a white-noise ﬂashing ratchet
Alex Gomez-Marin, Jose Maria Sancho
Phys. Rev. E 77, 031108 (2008)

[7] Self-sustained Spatiotemporal Oscillations Induced By Membrane-Bulk Coupling
Alex Gomez-Marin, Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo, Jose Maria Sancho
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 168303 (2007)

In the media: · Virtual Journal of Biological Physics

[6] Test of ﬂuctuation theorem for stochastic entropy production in a nonequilibrium steady state
Alex Gomez-Marin*, Ignacio Pagonabarraga
Phys. Rev. E 74, 061113 (2006) (*) Corresponding author

[5] Tight coupling in thermal Brownian motors
Alex Gomez-Marin*, Jose Maria Sancho
Phys. Rev. E 74, 062102 (2006) (*) Corresponding author

[4] Reply to Comment on “Heat fluctuations in Brownian transducers”
Alex Gomez-Marin, Jose Maria Sancho
Phys. Rev. E 74, 063102 (2006)

[3] Heat ﬂuctuations in Brownian transducers
Alex Gomez-Marin, Jose Maria Sancho
Phys. Rev. E 73, 045101 (2006)

[2] Ratchet, pawl and spring Brownian motor
Alex Gomez-Marin*, Jose Maria Sancho
Physica D 216, 214-219 (2006) (*) Corresponding author

[1] Symmetric Brownian motor
Alex Gomez-Marin, Jose Maria Sancho
Phys. Rev. E 71, 021101 (2005)