Nathan Spreng

Nathan Spreng

I am an assistant professor and the director of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition in the Department of Human Development at Cornell University. My research examines large-scale brain network dynamics and their role in cognition. Currently, I am investigating the link between autobiography and imagination, how we conceive of the future, and successful navigation of the social world. These investigations extend to the related processes of memory, cognitive control, and social cognition and the interacting brain networks that support them. I am also actively involved in the development and implementation of multivariate and network-based statistical approaches to assess brain activity. In doing so, I hope to better understand the properties of the brain networks underlying complex cognitive processes as they change across the lifespan.


Inquiries into joining the lab are welcome.

• B.A., Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
• M.A. & Ph.D., Psychology, University of Toronto, ON
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest, Toronto, ON
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

HD 4630: Introduction to functional MRI analysis for human neuroimaging (Spring 2013)

HD 2200: Human brain and mind (Fall 2013)

http://lbc.human.cornell.edu/

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-9vw5MIAAAAJ&hl=en

*Hassabis, D., *Spreng, R.N., Rusu, A.A., Robbins, C.A., Mar, R.A. & Schacter, D.L. (in press). Imagine all the people: How the brain creates and uses personality models to predict behavior. Cerebral Cortex. *co-first authors

Spreng, R.N., Sepulcre, J., Turner, G.R., Stevens, W.D. & Schacter, D.L. (2013). Intrinsic architecture underlying the relations among the default, dorsal attention, and frontoparietal control networks of the human brain. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25, 74-86.

Spreng, R.N. & Schacter, D.L. (2012). Default network modulation and large-scale network interactivity in healthy young and old adults. Cerebral Cortex, 22, 2610-2621.

Spreng, R.N. (2012). The fallacy of a “task-negative” network. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 145.

Spreng, R.N. & Mar, R.A. (2012). I remember you: A role for memory in social cognition and the functional neuroanatomy of their interaction. Brain Research, 1428, 43-50.

Spreng, R.N., Stevens, W.D., Chamberlain, J., Gilmore, A.W. & Schacter, D.L. (2010). Default network activity, coupled with the frontoparietal control network, supports goal-directed cognition. NeuroImage, 31, 303-317.

Spreng, R.N. & Grady, C. (2010). Patterns of brain activity supporting autobiographical memory, prospection and theory-of-mind and their relationship to the default mode network. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 1112-1123.

Spreng, R.N., Mar, R.A. & Kim, A.S.N. (2009). The common neural basis of autobiographical memory, prospection, navigation, theory of mind and the default mode: A quantitative meta-analysis. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 489-510.

Complete list: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22Spreng%20RN%22[Author]