TOMMI HIMBERG – PUBLICATIONS

Citations: 405 h-index: 11 i10-index: 11 (Google Scholar 14.2. 2019)

A: Peer-reviewed scientific articles and book chapters
Himberg, T., Laroche, J., Bigé, R., Buchkowski, M., & Bachrach, A. (2018). Coordinated interpersonal behaviour
in collective dance improvisation: the aesthetics of kinaesthetic togetherness. Behavioral Sciences, 8(2), 23.
Himberg, T. (2017). Entrainment and Mutual Adaptation in Musical Movement and Dance. In Lesaffre, Maes,
Leman (eds.): The Routledge Companion to Embodied Music Interaction
Thompson, M. R., Diapoulis, Y., Himberg, T. & Toiviainen, P. (2017). Interpersonal coordination in dyadic
performance. In Lesaffre, Maes, Leman (eds.): The Routledge Companion to Embodied Music Interaction.
Stevanovic, M., Himberg, T., Niinisalo, M., Peräkylä, A., Sams, M. & Hari, R. (2017). Sequentiality, mutual
visibility, and behavioral matching: Body sway and pitch register during joint decision-making. Research on
Language and Social Interaction, Special Issue “Experimental and quantitative perspectives on Conversation
Analysis”, 50(1), 33–53.
Spiro, N. & Himberg, T. (2016). Analysing Change in Music Therapy Interactions of Children with
Communication Difficulties. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 371(1693), 20150374.
Himberg, T., Hirvenkari, L., Mandel, A. & Hari, R. (2015). Word-by-word entrainment of speech rhythm during
joint story building. Frontiers in Psychology 6, 797.
Hari, R., Himberg, T., Nummenmaa, L., Hämäläinen, M. & Parkkonen, L. (2013). Synchrony of brains and bodies
during implicit interpersonal interaction. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17(3), 105–6. (Spotlight comment)
Himberg, T. & Thompson, M.R. (2011). Learning and synchronising dance movements in South African songs -
Cross-cultural motion-capture study. Dance Research, 29(2), 305–328.
London, J., Himberg, T. & Cross, I. (2009). The Effect of Structural and Performance Factors in the Perception of
Anacruses. Music Perception, 27(2), 103–120.
Eerola, T., Himberg, T., Toiviainen, P. & Louhivuori, J. (2006). Perceived Complexity of Western and African Folk
Melodies by Western and African Listeners. Psychology of Music, 34(3), 337–371.

B: Non-refereed scientific articles

Himberg, T., Förger, K., Niinisalo, M., Pugliese, R., Nuutinen, J. & Lehmus, J. (2017). Social eMotions - exploring
emotional expression and contagion in contemporary dance. In E. Van Dyck (ed.) Proceedings of the 25th
Anniversary Conference of ESCOM, Gent, Belgium. 87–90.
Thompson, M.R., Diapoulis, Y., Johnson, S., Kwan, P. Y., Himberg, T. (2015). Effect of tempo and vision on
interpersonal coordination of timing in dyadic performance. Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on
Computer Music and Multidisciplinary Research, Plymouth, UK.
Spiro, N. & Himberg, T. (2015). Improvisation and change in music therapy sessions: exploring individual
difference. Proceedings of the 9th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of
Music (ESCOM), Manchester, UK.
Spiro, N., Rush, C. & Himberg, T. (2014). Improvisation and Change in Videos of 1-to-1 Music Therapy Sessions
With Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders: a Case Example. In M.K. Song (ed.). Proceedings of the 13th
International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition & 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for
Cognitive Sciences of Music (ICMPC-APSCOM), Seoul, South Korea.
Himberg, T. & Spiro, N. (2013). Patterns of Entrainment: Being out of sync, in sync, and in between. In A.
Williamon & W. Goebl (eds.). Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science 2013 (ISPS),
Vienna, Austria.
Himberg, T., Thompson, M.R. & Gill, S. (2013). Rhythmic Entrainment in Communicative, Dyadic Improvisation.
In A. Williamon & W. Goebl (eds.). Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science 2013
(ISPS), Vienna, Austria.
Himberg, T. (2012). Molemminpuolinen mukautuminen: Tahdistumisen ja musiikillisen vuorovaikutuksen
tutkimus. (Mutual adaptation: Research on entrainment and musical interaction). In Himberg, T., Vuoskoski, J.,
and Eerola, T., editors, Proceedings of the 16th Annual Symposium for Music Scholars in Finland, Jyväskylä,
Finland. University of Jyväskylä.
Spiro, N. & Himberg, T. (2012). Musicians and Non-musicians Adapting to Tempo Differences in Cooperative
Tapping Tasks. In E. Cambouropoulos, C. Tsourgas, P. Mavromatis, and K. Pastiadis. Proceedings of the 12th
International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and the 8th Triennial Conference of the European
Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ICMPC-ESCOM), Thessaloniki, Greece.
Himberg, T., Braithwaite, L., Snape, J. & Spiro, N. (2011). Negotiating Chaos - A View to Entrainment. In Actas
del X Encuentro para las Ciencias Cognitivas de la Música, SACCoM. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Himberg, T. & Thompson, M.R. (2010). Dyadic entrainment and interaction in African dance. In S. M. Demorest,
S. J. Morrison, & P. S. Campbell (Eds.). Proceedings of the 11th International Conference for Music Perception
and Cognition (ICMPC). Seattle, US.
Himberg, T. & Thompson, M.R. (2009). Group Synchronization of Coordinated Movements in a Cross-cultural
Choir Workshop. In J. Louhivuori, T. Eerola, S. Saarikallio, T. Himberg, & P.-S. Eerola (eds.). Proceedings of the
7th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, (ESCOM). Jyväskylä,
Finland: University of Jyväskylä.
Himberg, T. (2008). Dyadic Entrainment and Interaction in African Dance. In K. Miyazaki, Y. Hiraga, M. Adachi,
Y. Nakajima & M. Tsuzaki, (Eds.). Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Music Perception and
Cognition, (ICMPC). Sapporo, Japan.

C: Scientific books and monographs

Himberg, T. (2014). Interaction in Musical Time. PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge.
(http://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/245212)

D: Publications intended for professional communities

Conference proceedings (as editor)
Himberg, T., Vuoskoski, J., & Eerola, T. (eds.) (2012). Proceedings of the 16th Annual Symposium for Music
Scholars in Finland, Jyväskylä, Finland. University of Jyväskylä.
Louhivuori, J., Eerola, T., Saarikallio, S., Himberg, T. & Eerola, P.-S. (eds.) (2009). Proceedings of the 7th Triennial
Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, (ESCOM). Jyväskylä: University of
Jyväskylä.
Teaching materials
Lähdesmäki, T., Hurme, P., Koskimaa, R., Mikkola, L. & Himberg, T. (2011). Menetelmäpolkuja humanisteille.
University of Jyväskylä, Faculty of Humanities. http://www.jyu.fi/mehu (Mapping Research Methods; English
version http://bit.ly/11g4N1)

F: Public Artistic Activities

Art works and performances
Lehmus, J., Nuutinen, J., Lampela, J., Lampela, U. Laine, I-V, Pugliese, R. & Himberg, T. (2016). Social eMotions
– an interactive performance for 2 dancers, 2 cellists & 1 scientist.
- première in OuDance Festival 18.9.2016, two performances in Stoa, Helsinki 23. & 24.2. 2017
Trailer: bit.ly/SocialEmotions

G: Theses
Himberg, T. (2014). Interaction in Musical Time. PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge.
(http://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/245212)
Himberg, T. (2002). Perception of Melodic Complexity – A Cross-cultural Investigation. Master’s thesis,
University of Jyväskylä. (http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-2002893604)

I: Audiovisual material and software

ELAN-MATLAB Toolbox – Tools to analyse ELAN-files in MATLAB. (2016) See https://github.com/tijh for code,
Spiro & Himberg, 2016 for study using the toolbox.

Talks, presentations, and posters in scientific conferences

Invited and keynote lectures
Himberg, T. (2016). Sosiaalisen vuorovaikutuksen mekanismit ja aivoperusta (The mechanisms and neural basis
of social interaction). Puheen ja kielen tutkimuksen päivät (Annual meeting of the Finnish Association of Speech
and Language Research), Helsinki, 31.3. 2016. Keynote lecture.
Himberg, T. (2010). Interaction in African Dance – A Cross-cultural study. New Perspectives on Joint Action and
Task Sharing – workshop. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Leipzig, Germany.
Invited lecture.
Himberg, T. (2008). Co-operative Tapping: Musical and Social Interaction. In Symposium “Rhythmic
Coordination in Dyads”. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Leipzig, Germany.
Invited lecture.
Conference presentations and posters (25 most recent)
Himberg, T., Hicks, L., Lutes, C., Laroche, J., Dalla Bella, S., Bachrach, A. (2018). United we stand, divided we
fall: studying group cohesion and resilience with "rhythm battle". ICMPC15 & ESCOM10, Graz, Austria. Spoken
presentation.
Förger, K., Himberg, T., Laroche, J. & Bachrach, A. (2018). FSenSync - A software for enabling collaboration
between art and science. Hybrid Labs Symposium 2018, Espoo, Finland. Short paper and Demonstration.
Himberg, T., Laroche, J., Dalla Bella, S., Bachrach, A. (2018). ‘Rhythm battle’: a novel task for studying group
entrainment, cohesion and resilience. Together In Music Conference, York, UK. Spoken presentation.
Stevanovic, M., Himberg, T., Niinisalo, M., Peräkylä, A., Sams, M. & Hari, R. (2017). Eye movements during
proposals and their responses in dyadic decision-making. 15th International Pragmatics Conference IPrA, Belfast,
North Ireland. Spoken presentation.
Himberg, T., Förger, K., Niinisalo, M., Pugliese, R., Nuutinen, J. & Lehmus, J. (2017). Social eMotions - exploring
emotional expression and contagion in contemporary dance. ESCOM2017, Gent, Belgium. Poster presentation.
Himberg, T. & Förger, K. (2016). Social eMotions: combining contemporary dance and movement science.
D.I.G.: La Dynamique Interactionnelle du Geste, Paris, France. Spoken presentation.
Spiro, N., Farrant, C. & Himberg, T. (2016). Representing change in patterns of interaction of children with
communication difficulties in music therapy: what do the therapists think? ICMPC14, San Francisco, US. Poster.
Himberg, T., Niinisalo, M. & Hari, R. (2015). Mirroring Improvised Hand Movements in Dyads. Joint
Improvisation Meeting, Paris, France. Spoken presentation.
Himberg, T., Niinisalo, M. & Hari, R. (2015). Coordination of Fluent Hand-Movements in Dyads. RPPW-15,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Spoken presentation.
Himberg, T., Hirvenkari, L. & Hari, R. (2014). Entrainment of speech rhythms in a dyadic story-telling task.
Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Washington DC, US. Poster.
Himberg, T. & Spiro, N. (2014). Interactionism and Music: Measuring Entrainment and Influence in Dyads and
Groups. 13th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition & 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific
Society for Cognitive Sciences of Music (ICMPC-APSCOM), Seoul, South Korea. Spoken presentation.
Thompson, M.R., Himberg, T., London, J. & Toiviainen, P. (2014). Effect of Tempo and Vision on Interpersonal
Coordination of Time. 13th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition & 5th Conference of the
Asia-Pacific Society for Cognitive Sciences of Music (ICMPC-APSCOM), Seoul, South Korea. Spoken
presentation.
Spiro, N., Rush, C. & Himberg, T. (2014). Improvisation and Change in Videos of 1-to-1 Music Therapy Sessions
With Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders: a Case Example. 13th International Conference on Music
Perception and Cognition & 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for Cognitive Sciences of Music (ICMPC-
APSCOM), Seoul, South Korea. Poster.
Himberg, T. & Spiro, N. (2013). Patterns of Entrainment: Being out of sync, in sync, and in between. International
Symposium on Performance Science 2013, Vienna, Austria. Spoken presentation.
Himberg, T., Thompson, M.R. & Gill, S. (2013). Rhythmic Entrainment in Communicative, Dyadic Improvisation.
International Symposium on Performance Science 2013, Vienna, Austria. Spoken presentation.
Gill, S., Thompson, M.R. & Himberg, T. (2012). Body Rhythmic Entrainment and Pragmatics in Musical and
Linguistic Improvisation Tasks. 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and the 8th
Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, Thessaloniki, Greece. Spoken
presentation.
Himberg, T. (2012). Molemminpuolinen mukautuminen: Tahdistumisen ja musiikillisen vuorovaikutuksen
tutkimus. (Mutual adaptation: Research on entrainment and musical interaction). 16th Annual Symposium for
Music Scholars in Finland, Jyväskylä, Finland. Spoken presentation.
Himberg, T. & Spiro, N. (2012). Beating to Each Other’s Drum: Towards a comprehensive understanding of
pairwise rhythmic interaction. 7th Nordic Music Therapy Congress, Jyväskylä, Finland. Spoken presentation.
Hoadley, R., Aaron, S., Cross, I., Gill, S., Himberg, T., Odell-Miller, H. & Toulson, R. (2012). Touching Sound:
Technologies for mediated interaction in music therapy. 7th Nordic Music Therapy Congress, Jyväskylä, Finland.
Spoken presentation (delivered by Dr. Hoadley).
Spiro, N. & Himberg, T. (2012). Empathy and Resisting Entrainment: Mapping the dimensions of pairwise
rhythmic interaction. 16th Annual Symposium for Music Scholars in Finland, Jyväskylä, Finland. Spoken
presentation.
Spiro, N. & Himberg, T. (2012). Musicians and Non-musicians Adapting to Tempo Differences in Cooperative
Tapping Tasks. 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and the 8th Triennial
Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, Thessaloniki, Greece. Poster.
Gill, S.P., Himberg, T. & Thompson, M.R. (2011). Pragmatics of Bodily Rhythm. BPS3: The Music of Language,
The Language of Music: Communicative Interaction. Middlesex University. Poster.
Himberg, T., Braithwaite, L., Snape, J. & Spiro, N. (2011). Negotiating Chaos - A View to Entrainment. X
Encuentro para las Ciencias Cognitivas de la Música, SACCoM. Spoken presentation (delivered by Dr. Spiro).
Himberg, T. (2011). Interacting with Non-responsive and Responsive Tapping Partners. 13th International
Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop. Leipzig, Germany. Poster presentation.
Himberg, T. & Thompson, M.R. (2010). Dyadic entrainment and interaction in African dance. In 11th
International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition. Seattle, US. Poster.
Himberg, T. & Thompson, M.R. (2009). Group synchronization of coordinated movements in a cross-cultural
choir workshop. In 7th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music,
(ESCOM). Jyväskylä, Finland. Spoken presentation.
Himberg, T. (2009). Analysing Group Entrainment. In Entrainment Network. Milton Keynes, UK. Spoken
presentation.