Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis

By Lawrence M. Zbikowski. 2002

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Language as shaped by the brain. (2008, background): “…of thought (e.g., of objects and relations) may be shared between languages, whereas syntactic categories and constructions are defined by language-internal properties, such as distributional relations, so that the attempt to find cross-linguistic syntactic universals is doomed to failure.”
Evaluating Conceptual Metaphor Theory (2011, background): “2008; Núñez & Sweetser, 2006), mathematics (Lakoff & Núñez, 2002), music (Johnson & Larsen, 2003; Zbikowski, 2002), dance (Gibbs, 2003), pictorial advertising and comics (Forceville, 2002, 2005), architecture (Ferrari, 2006), and material culture (Orton, 2004; Tilley, 1999).”
Cognitive Styles of Music Listening (2008, background): “Although the general interest in the arts and humanities has been conceived of as an expression of the female brain type (empathizing), as stated above, the status of music has remained unclear (Nettle, 2007; Zbikowski, 2002).”