- The analysis and cognition of melody
- Formalized theories of music cognition
- Perception of stylistic form and content
- Perception of harmonic implication
- Perception of meter
- Weighting of hierarchical structures
- Cognitive rule mapping
- Theories of musical performance
- Cognitive theories of performance
- Aesthetic syntax in melody
- Theory of orchestration
- The modern score and its modes of performance
- The implication-realization model as a unified theory of musical structure, and structural analogues between painting (color, line, form) and music
- Music theory vs. cognitive music theory
- Scaling and evaluating musical emotion, language, evolution, and aesthetics according to the parametric scales of the I-R model.