My thinking about cognition has been deeply influenced by the field of cognitive linguistics.

The second chapter of my book, Focal Impulse Theory, gives quick overview of the cognitive-linguistic approach to the prototype category, but cognitive-linguistic ideas are dealt with more extensively in the work listed below.

“Hypermetrical Schemas, Metrical Orientation, and Cognitive-Linguistic Paradigms,” 2013, Journal of Music Theory 57.1, 47-85.

“Hypermetrical Analysis and Music-Theoretical and Linguistic Accounts of Cognition," Eastern Illinois University, February 2011.

“Analysis, Categorization, Tonality and Atonality,” Music, Language, and the Mind, Medford, MA, July 2008.

“Hypermetrical Schemas, Conflicting Theories, and the Radial Category,” Indiana Theory Symposium, Bloomington, IN, February 2008.

“Elegant Mathematics, Cognition, and Scientific Investigations of Tonality,” invited colloquium, Music Theory and Cognition Program, Northwestern University, February 2006.