Reflections and Resources

InCHORRRuS: Infant-Directed Communication Highlights and Organizes Repetition and Redundancy Through Rhythmic Structure

Camila Alviar, Warren Jones, Miriam Lense
January 21, 2026
https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nyas.70147
The sets of multimodal cues that caregivers highlight within the rhythmic structure of a song are variable across repeated verses and performances depending on whether their infant can see them, their interactional goals, and their child's current needs and skillset, among other constraints.
In the InCHORRRuS (Infant-directed (ID) Communication Highlights and Organizes Repetition and Redundancy through Rhythmic Structure) framework, increased rhythmicity in ID speech and the beat-based metrically structured rhythmicity in ID song naturally organize the multimodally redundant and repetitive cues in the caregiver's communicative signals, supercharging their saliency by increasing their predictability. Rhythmicity naturally modulates infant attention, guiding it to those communicatively rich times and scaffolding caregiver-infant coordination.

Mindful Songwriting: Songs from Parents/Caregivers

November 17, 2022
In our Mindfulness-Based Music and Songwriting study, caregivers/parents of children with developmental disabilities learned and applied mindfulness principles through the practice of creating original songs about their children and themselves. Songwriting focused on applying mindfulness principles such as paying attention without judgment and loving kindness.All songs are shared with participant permission.Mindfulness / Mindful Songwriting Information
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