PUBLICATIONS
2023
Setton, R., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Girn, M., Lockrow, A. W., Baracchini, G., Hughes, C., Lowe, A. J., Cassidy, B. N., Li, J., Luh, W-M., Bzdok, D., Leahy, R. M., Ge, T., Margulies, D. S., Misic, B., Bernhardt., B. C., Stevens, W. D., De Brigard, F., Kundu, P. ... Spreng, R. N. (2023). Age differences in the functional architecture of the human brain. Cerebral Cortex, 33(1), 114-134. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac056
2022
Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Setton, R., Bzdok, D., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2022). Age differences in functional brain networks associated with loneliness and empathy. Network Neuroscience, 1-60. https://doi.org/10.1162/netn_a_00293
Fenerci, C., Gurguryan, L., Spreng, R. N., & Sheldon, S. (2022). Comparing neural activity during autobiographical memory retrieval between younger and older adults: An ALE meta-analysis. Neurobiology of Aging, 119, 8-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2022.06.009 | PDF
Setton, R., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Sheldon, S., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2022). Hippocampus and temporal pole functional connectivity is associated with age and individual differences in autobiographical memory. PNAS, 119(41), e2203039119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2203039119 | PDF
DeYoung, C. G., Sassenberg, T. A., Abend, R., Allen, T., Beaty, R., Bellgrove, M., Blain, S. D., Bzdok, D., Chavez, R. S., Engel, S. A., Ma, F., Fornito, A., Genç, E., Goghari, V., Grazioplene, R., Hanson, J. L., Haxby, J., Hilger, K., Homan, P., ... Wacker, J. (2022). Reproducible between-person brain-behavior associations do not always require thousands of individuals. DOI:10.31234/osf.io/sfnmk | PDF
Spreng, R. N., Setton, R., Alter, U., Cassidy, B. N., Darboh, B., DuPre, E., Kantarovich, K., Lockrow, A. W., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Luh, W-M., Kundu, P., & Turner, G. R. (2022). Neurocognitive aging data release with behavioral, structural and multi-echo functional MRI measures. Scientific Data, 9, 119. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01231-7 | PDF
Uddin, L. Q., Betzel, R. F., Cohen, J. R., Damoiseaux, J. S., De Brigard, F., Eickhoff, S. B., Fornito, A., Gratton, C., Gordon, E. M., Laird, A., Larson-Prior, L. J., McIntosh, A. R., Nickerson, L. D., Pessoa, L., Pinho, A. L., Poldrack, R., Razi, A., Sadaghiani, S., Shine, J. M., ... Spreng, R. N. (2022). Controversies and current progress on large-scale brain network nomenclature from OHBM WHATNET: Workgroup for HArmonized Taxonomy of NETworks. DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/25za6 | PDF
Kantarovich, K., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Fernández-Cabello, S., Setton, R., Baracchini, G., Lockrow, A. W., Spreng, R. N., & Turner, G. R. (2022). White matter lesion load is associated with lower within- and greater between- network connectivity across older age. Neurobiology of Aging, 112, 170-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2022.01.005 | PDF
Pehlivanoglu, D., Lin, T., Lighthall, N. R., Wilson, R. C., Turner, G. R., Spreng, R. N., & Ebner, N. C. (2022). Facial trustworthiness perceptions across the adult lifespan. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbac166 | PDF
Nomi, J., Bzdok, D., Li, J., Bolt, T., Kornfeld, S., Goodman, Z., Yeo, B. T. T., Spreng, R. N., & Uddin, L. (2022). Global signal topography in the human brain differs systematically across the lifespan. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.27.501804 | PDF
Dubé, L., Silveira, P. P., Nielsen, D. E., Moore, S., Paquet, C., Cisneros-Franco, J. M., Kemp, G., Knauper, B., Ma, Y., Khan, M., Bartlett-Esquilant, G., Evans, A. C., Fellows, L. K., Armony, J. L., Spreng, R. N., Nie, J-Y., Brown, S. T., Northoff, G., & Bzdok, D. (2022). From precision medicine to precision convergence for multilevel resilience—The aging brain and its social isolation. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, 720117. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.720117 | PDF
Sassenberg, T. A., Burton, P. C., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Jung, R. E., Rustichini, A., Spreng, R. N., & DeYoung, C. G. (2022). Conscientiousness associated with efficiency of the salience/ventral attention network: Replication in three samples using individualized parcellation. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.07.495168 | PDF
DeYoung, C. G., Beaty, R. E., Genç, E., Latzman, R. D., Passamonti, L., Servaas, M. N., Shackman, A. J., Smillie, L. D., Spreng, R. N., Viding, E., & Wacker, J. (2022). Personality neuroscience: An emerging field with bright prospects. Personality science, 3, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.7269 | PDF
Setton, R., Sheldon, S., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2022). Temporal pole volume is associated with episodic autobiographical memory in healthy older adults. Hippocampus, 32(5), 373-385. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23411 | PDF
Lockrow, A. W., Setton, R., Spreng, K. A. P., Sheldon, S., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2022). Taking stock of the past: A psychometric evaluation of the Autobiographical Interview. bioRxiv. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.22.473803v1 | PDF
Hansen, J., Golia, S., Ross, M., Kelly, S., Sylvia, C., Yanjun, W., Gallezot, J-D., Aumont, É., Servaes, S., Scala, S. G., DuBois, J. M., Wainstein, G., Bezgin, G., Funck, T., Schmitz, T. W., Spreng, R. N., Galovic, M. ... Misic, B. (2022). Mapping neurotransmitter systems to the structural and functional organization of the human neocortex. Nature Neuroscience, 25, 1569-1581. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01186-3 | PDF
Liu, Z-Q., Vázquez-Rodríguez, B., Spreng, R. N., Bernhardt, B. C., Betzel, R. F., & Misic, B. (2022). Time-resolved structure-function coupling in brain networks. Communications Biology, 5(1), 532. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03466-x | PDF
Setton, R., Lockrow, A. W., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2022). Troubled past: A critical psychometric assessment of the self-report Survey of Autobiographical Memory (SAM). Behavior Research Methods, 54(1), 261-286. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01604-7 | PDF
Zajner, C., Spreng, N., & Bzdok, D. (2022). Lacking social support is associated with structural divergences in hippocampus-default network co-variation patterns. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17(9), 802-818. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsac006 | PDF
Lin, T., Horta, M., Heald, K., Heemskerk, A., Darboh, B., Levi, A., Spreng, R. N., Turner, G. R., & Ebner, N. C. (2022). Loneliness progression among older adults during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and Canada. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 77(4), e23-e29. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab229 | PDF
Li, J., Bhattasali, S., Zhang, S., Franzluebbers, B., Luh, W. M., Spreng, R. N., ... & Hale, J. (2021). Le Petit Prince: A multilingual fMRI corpus using ecological stimuli. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.02.462875 | PDF
Denis, D., DiPietro, C., Spreng, R. N., Schacter, D. L., Stickgold, R., & Payne, J. D. (2021). Sleep and testing both strengthen and distort story recollection. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/abt56 | PDF
Girn, M., Roseman, L., Bernhardt, B., Smallwood, J., Carhart-Harris, R., & Spreng, R. N. (2022). Serotonergic psychedelic drugs LSD and psilocybin reduce the hierarchical differentiation of unimodal and transmodal cortex. NeuroImage, 256, 119220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119220 | PDF
2021
Spreng, R. N., & Turner, G. R. (2021). From exploration to exploitation: A shifting mental mode in late life development. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(12), 1058-1071. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2021.09.001 | PDF
Kiesow, H., Spreng, R. N., Holmes, A. J., Chakravarty, M. M., Marquand, A. F., Yeo, B. T. T., & Bzdok, D. (2021). Deep learning identifies partially overlapping subnetworks in the human social brain. Communications Biology, 4(1), 1-14. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-01559-z | PDF
Kong, R., Yang, Q., Gordon, E., Xue, A., Yan, X., Orban, C., Zuo, X-N., Spreng, N., Ge, T., Holmes, A., Eickhoff, S., & Yeo, B. T. T. (2021). Individual-specific areal-level parcellations improve functional connectivity prediction of behavior. Cerebral Cortex, 31(10), 4477-4500. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab101 | PDF
Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., & Spreng, R. N. (2021). Social exclusion reliably engages the default network: A meta-analysis of Cyberball. NeuroImage, 227, 117666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroiAnderson, K. M., Ge, T., Kong, R., Patrick, L. M., Spreng, R. N., Sabuncu, M. R., ... & Holmes, A. J. (2021). Heritability of individualized cortical network topography. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(9), e2016271118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2016271118 | PDF
Xu, N., Doerschuk, P. C., Keilholz, S. D., & Spreng, R. N. (2021). Spatiotemporal functional interactivity among large-scale brain networks. NeuroImage, 227, 117628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117628 | PDF
Spreng, R. N., & Bzdok, D. (2021). Loneliness and neurocognitive aging. Advances in Geriatric Medicine and Research, 3(2), e210009. DOI: 10.20900/agmr20210009 | PDF
Anderson, K. M., Ge, T., Kong, R., Patrick, L. M., Spreng, R. N., Sabuncu, M. R., Yeo, B. T. T., & Holmes, A. J. (2021). Heritability of individualized cortical network topography. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(9), e2016271118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2016271118 | PDF
Kupis, L., Goodman, Z. T., Kornfeld, S., Hoang, S., Romero, C., Dirks, B., Dehoney, J., Chang, C., Spreng, R. N., Nomi, J. S., & Uddin, L. Q. (2021). Brain dynamics underlying cognitive flexibility across the lifespan. Cerebral Cortex, 31(11), 5263-5274. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab156 | PDF
Baracchini, G., Mišić, B., Setton, R., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Girn, M., Nomi, J. S., Uddin, L. Q., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2021). Inter-regional BOLD signal variability is an organizational feature of functional brain networks. NeuroImage, 237, 118149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118149 | PDF
Huang, S., Faul, L., Sevinc, G., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Setton, R., Lockrow, A. W., Ebner, N. C., Turner, G. R., Spreng, R. N., & De Brigard, F. (2021). Age differences in intuitive moral decision-making: Associations with inter-network neural connectivity. Psychology and Aging, 36(8), 902-916. DOI: 10.1037/pag0000633 | PDF
Zajner, C., Spreng, R. N., & Bzdok, D. (2021). Loneliness is linked to specific subregional alterations in hippocampus-default network covariation. Journal of Neurophysiology, 126(6), 2138-2157. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00339.2021 | PDF
2020
Weissberger, G. H., Mosqueda, L., Nguyen, A. L., Axelrod, J., Nguyen, C. P., Boyle, P. A., Spreng, N., & Han, S. D. (2020). Functional connectivity correlates of perceived financial exploitation in older adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 12, 583433. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2020.583433 | PDF
Spreng, R. N., Dimas, E., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Dagher, A., Koellinger, P., Nave, G., Ong, A., Kernbach, J. M., Wiecki, T. V., Ge, T., Li, Y., Holmes, A. J., Yeo, B. T. T., Turner, G. R., Dunbar, R. I. M., & Bzdok, D. (2020). The default network of the human brain is associated with perceived social isolation. Nature Communications, 11(1), 6393. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20039-w | PDF | suppl.
Laurita, A. C., DuPre, E., Ebner, N. C., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2020). Default network interactivity during mentalizing about known others is modulated by age and social closeness. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 15(5), 537-549. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa067 | PDF
Fernandez-Cabello, S., Kronbichler, M., Van Dijk, K. R. A., Goodman, J. A., Spreng, R. N., & Schmitz, T. W. (2020). Basal forebrain volume reliably predicts the cortical spread of Alzheimer’s degeneration. Brain, 143(3), 993–1009. DOI: 10.1093/brain/awaa012 | PDF
Schmitz, T. W., Soreq, H, Poirier, J., & Spreng, R. N. (2020). Longitudinal basal forebrain degeneration interacts with TREM2/C3 biomarkers of inflammation in pre-symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(9), 1931–1942. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1184-19.2019 | PDF
Ebner, N. C., Ellis, D. M., Lin, T., Rocha, H. A., Yang, H., Dommaraju, S., Soliman, A., Woodard, D. L., Turner, G. R., Spreng, R. N., & Oliveira, D. (2020). Uncovering susceptibility risk to online deception in aging. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 75(3), 522-533. DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gby036 | PDF
2019
Spreng, R. N., DuPre, E., Ji. J. L., Yang, G., Diehl, C., Murray, J., Pearlson, G., & Anticevic, A. (2019). Structural covariance reveals alterations in control and salience network integrity in chronic schizophrenia. Cerebral Cortex, 29(12), 5269-5284. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhz064 | PDF
Uddin, L. Q., Yeo, B. T. T., & Spreng, R. N. (2019). Towards a universal taxonomy of macro-scale functional human brain networks. Brain Topology, 32(6), 926–942. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-019-00744-6 | PDF
Lowe, A. J., Paquola, C., Vos de Wael, R., Girn, M., Lariviere, S., Tavakol, S., Royer, J., Caldairou, B., Schrader, D., Bernasconi, A., Bernasconi, N., Spreng, R. N., & Bernhardt, B. C. (2019). Targeting age-related differences in brain and cognition with multimodal imaging and connectome topography profiling. Human Brain Mapping, 40(18), 5213–5230. DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24767 | PDF
Rodriguez-Vazquez, B., Suarez, L. E., Shafiei, G., Markello, R., Paquola, C., Hagmann, P., Van Den Heuvel, M., Bernhardt, B. C., Spreng, R. N., & Misic, B. (2019). Gradients of structure-function tethering across neocortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 116(42), 21219–21227. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1903403116 | PDF
Maillet, D., Beaty, R. E., Adnan, A., Fox, K. C. R., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2019). Aging and the wandering brain: Age-related differences in the neural correlates of stimulus-independent thoughts. PLoS ONE, 14(10), e0223981. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223981 | PDF
Li, J., Bolt, T., Bzdok, D., Nomi, J. S., Yeo, B. T. T., Spreng, R. N., & Uddin, L. Q. (2019). Topography and behavioral relevance of the global signal in the human brain. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 14286. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-50750-8 | PDF
Spreng, R. N., Fernandez-Cabello, S., Turner, G. R., & Stevens, W. D. (2019). Take a deep breath: Multi-echo fMRI denoising effectively removes head motion artifacts, obviating the need for global signal regression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(39), 19241-19242. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909848116 | PDF
Lemire-Rodger, S., Lam, J., Viviano, J., Stevens, W. D., Spreng, R. N., & Turner, G. R. (2019). Inhibit, switch and update: A within-subject fMRI investigation of executive control. Neuropsychologia, 132, 107134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107134 | PDF
Setton, R., Fisher, G., & Spreng, R. N. (2019). Mind the gap: Congruence between present and future motivational states shapes prospective decisions. Neuropsychologia, 132, 107130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107130 | PDF
Spreng, R. N., & Turner, G. R. (2019). The shifting architecture of cognition and brain function in older adulthood. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 14(4), 523–542. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691619827511 | PDF
Ngo, G. H., Eickhoff, S. B., Nguyen, M., Sevinc, G., Fox, P. T., Spreng, R. N., & Yeo, B. T. T. (2019). Beyond consensus: Embracing heterogeneity in curated neuroimaging meta-analysis. NeuroImage, 200, 142–158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.06.037 | PDF
Laurita, A. C., Hazan, C., & Spreng, R. N. (2019). Neural signatures of chronic accessibility in parent – adult child attachment bonds. Social Neuroscience, 14(4), 462–469. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2018.1494037 | PDF
Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Ge, T., Chong, M., Ferguson, M. A., Misic, B., Burrow., A. L., Leahy, R., & Spreng, R. N. (2019). Loneliness and meaning in life are reflected in the intrinsic network architecture of the brain. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 14(4), 423–433. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsz021 | PDF
Dimech, C. J., Anderson, J. A. E., Lockrow, A. W., Spreng, R. N., & Turner, G. R. (2019). Sex differences in the relationship between cardiorespiratory fitness and brain function in older adulthood. Journal of Applied Physiology, 126(4), 1032–1041. https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.01046.2018 | PDF
Bhattasali, S., Fabre, M., Luh, W-M., Al Saied, H., Constant, M., Pallier, C., Brennan, J. R., Spreng, R. N., & Hale, J. (2019). Localising memory retrieval and syntactic composition: A fMRI study of naturalistic language comprehension. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34(4), 491–510. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2018.1518533 | PDF
Horta, M., Ziaei, M., Lin, T., Porges, E., Fischer, H., Feifel, D., Spreng, R. N., & Ebner, N. C. (2019). Oxytocin alters patterns of brain activity and amygdalar connectivity by age during dynamic facial emotion identification. Neurobiology of Aging, 78, 42–51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2019.01.016 | PDF
Laurita, A. C., Hazan, C., & Spreng, R. N. (2019). An attachment theoretical perspective for the neural representation of close others. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 14(3), 237–251. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsz010 | PDF
Adnan, A., Beaty, R., Lam, J., Spreng, R. N., & Turner, G. R. (2019). Intrinsic default – executive coupling of the creative aging brain. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 14(3), 291–303. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsz013 | PDF
Adnan, A., Beaty, R., Silvia, P., Spreng, R. N., & Turner, G. R. (2019). Creative aging: Functional brain networks associated with divergent thinking in older and younger adults. Neurobiology of Aging, 75, 150–158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2018.11.004 | PDF
Sullivan, M. D., Anderson, J. A. E., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2019). Intrinsic neurocognitive network connectivity differences between normal aging and mild cognitive impairment are associated with cognitive status and age. Neurobiology of Aging, 73, 219–228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2018.10.001 | PDF
2018 & earlier
Maillet, D., Beaty, R. E., Jordano, M. L., Touron, D. R, Adnan, A., Silvia, P. J., Kwapil, T. R., Turner, G. R, Spreng, R. N., & Kane, M. J. (2018). Age-related differences in mind-wandering in daily life. Psychology and Aging. 33(4), 643–653. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000260 | PDF
Schmitz, T. W., Mur, M., Aghourian, M., Bédard, M-A., & Spreng, R. N. (2018). Longitudinal Alzheimer’s degeneration reflects the spatial topography of cholinergic basal forebrain projections. Cell Reports, 24(1), 38-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2018.06.001 | PDF
Parikh, N., Ruzic, L., Stewart, G. W., Spreng, R. N., & De Brigard, F. (2018). What if? Neural activity underlying semantic and episodic counterfactual thinking. NeuroImage, 178, 332-345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.05.053 | PDF
Markello, R., Spreng, R. N., Luh, W-M., Anderson, A., & DeRosa, E. (2018). Functional segregation of the human basal forebrain using resting state functional connectivity MRI. NeuroImage, 173, 287–297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.02.042 | PDF
Spreng, R. N., Madore, K. P., & Schacter, D. L. (2018). Better imagined: Neural correlates of the episodic simulation boost to prospective memory performance. Neuropsychologia, 113, 22–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.03.025 | PDF
Dixon, M. L., De La Vega, A., Mills, C. Andrews-Hanna, J. R., Spreng, R. N., Cole, M., & Christoff, K. (2018). Heterogeneity within the frontoparietal control network and its relationship to the default and dorsal attention networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 115(7), E1598–E1607. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1715766115 | PDF
Spreng, R. N., Lockrow, A. W., DuPre, E., Setton, R., Spreng, K. A. P., & Turner, G. R. (2018). Semanticized autobiographical memory and the default – executive coupling hypothesis of aging. Neuropsychologia, 110, 37–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.06.009 | PDF
Mar, R. A., & Spreng, R. N. (2018). Episodic memory solves both social and nonsocial problems, and evolved to fulfill many different functions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences [commentary], 41. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X17001418
DuPre, E., & Spreng, R. N. (2017). Structural covariance networks across the lifespan, from 6 to 94 years of age. Network Neuroscience, 1(3), 302–323. https://doi.org/10.1162/NETN_a_00016 | PDF
Hill, P. F., Yi., R., Spreng, R. N., & Diana, R. A. (2017). Neural congruence between intertemporal and interpersonal decision making: Evidence from delay and social discounting. NeuroImage, 162, 186–198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.08.071 | PDF
Spreng, R. N., Cassidy, B. N., Darboh, B., DuPre, E., Lockrow, A. W., Setton, R., & Turner, G. R. (2017). Financial exploitation is associated with structural and functional brain differences in healthy older adults. The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 72(10), 1365–1368. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glx051 | PDF
Ferguson, M. A., Anderson, J. S., & Spreng, R. N. (2017). Fluid and flexible minds: Intelligence reflects synchrony in the brain’s intrinsic network architecture. Network Neuroscience, 1(2), 192–207. https://doi.org/10.1162/NETN_a_00010 | PDF
Sevinc, G., Gutvit, I. H., & Spreng, R. N. (2017). Salience network engagement with the detection of morally laden information. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 12(7), 1118–1127. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx035 | PDF
Laurita, A. C., Hazan, C., & Spreng, R. N. (2017). Dissociable patterns of brain activity for mentalizing about known others: A role for attachment. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 12(7), 1072–1082. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx040 | PDF
Chong, M., Bhushan, C., Joshi, A. A., Choi, S. Y., Haldar, J. P., Shattuck, D. W., Spreng, R. N., & Leahy, R. M. (2017). Individual parcellation of resting fMRI with a group functional connectivity prior. NeuroImage, 156(1), 87–100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.04.054 | PDF
Xu, N., Spreng, R. N., & Doerschuk, P. C. (2017). Initial validation for the estimation of resting-state fMRI effective connectivity by a generalization of the correlation approach. Frontiers in Neuroscience, Brain Imaging Methods, 11, 271. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2017.00271 | PDF
Dixon, M. L., Andrews-Hanna, J. R., Spreng, R. N., Irving, Z. C., & Christoff, K. (2017). Anticorrelations between default and dorsal attention networks vary by default subsystem and across cognitive states. NeuroImage, 147, 632–649. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.12.073 | PDF
DuPre, E., Luh, W-M., & Spreng, R. N. (2016). Multi-echo fMRI replication sample of autobiographical memory, prospection and theory of mind reasoning tasks. Scientific Data, 3, 160116. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.116 | PDF
Spreng, R. N., Karlawish, J., & Marson, D. C. (2016). Cognitive, social and neural determinants of diminished decision-making and financial exploitation-risk in aging and dementia: A review and new model. Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, 28(4-5), 320–344. https://doi.org/10.1080/08946566.2016.1237918 | PDF
Risk, B. B., Matteson, D. S., Spreng, R. N., & Ruppert, D. (2016). Spatiotemporal mixed modeling of multi-subject task fMRI via method of moments. NeuroImage, 142(15), 280–292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.05.038 | PDF
Schmitz, T. W., Spreng, R. N., & The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. (2016). Basal forebrain degeneration precedes and predicts the cortical spread of Alzheimer’s pathology. Nature Communications, 7, 13249. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13249 | PDF
Christoff, K., Irving, Z. C., Fox, K. C. R., Spreng, R. N., & Andrews-Hanna, J. R. (2016). Mind-wandering as spontaneous thought: A dynamic framework. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 17, 718–731. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn.2016.113 | PDF
De Brigard, F., Giovanello, K. S., Stewart, G. W., Lockrow, A., O’Brien, M. M., & Spreng, R. N. (2016). Characterizing the subjective experience of episodic past, future and counterfactual thinking in healthy young and older adults. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(12), 2358–2375. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2015.1115529 | PDF
Spreng, R. N., Stevens, W. D., Viviano, J., & Schacter, D. L. (2016). Attenuated anticorrelation between the default and dorsal attention networks with aging: Evidence from task and rest. Neurobiology of Aging, 45, 149–160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2016.05.020 | PDF
Burrow, A. L., & Spreng, R. N. (2016). Waiting with purpose: A reliable but small association between purpose in life and impulsivity. Personality and Individual Differences, 90, 187–189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2015.11.010 | PDF
*Turner, G. R., & *Spreng, R. N. (2015). Prefrontal engagement and reduced default network suppression co-occur and are dynamically coupled in older adults: The default – executive coupling hypothesis of aging. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(12), 2462–2476. DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00869 | PDF
*Authors contributed equally.
Spreng, R. N., Gerlach, K. D., Turner, G. R., & Schacter, D. L. (2015). Autobiographical planning and the brain: Activation and its modulation by qualitative features. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(11), 2147–2157. DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00846 | PDF
Pillemer, K., Connolly, M. T., Breckman, R., Spreng, R. N., & Lachs, M. S. (2015). Elder mistreatment: Priorities for consideration by the White House conference on aging. The Gerontologist, 55(2), 320–327. DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnu180 | PDF
Fox, K. C. R., Spreng, R. N., Ellamil, M., Andrews-Hanna, J. R., & Christoff, K. (2015). The wandering brain: Meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies of mind-wandering and related spontaneous thought processes. NeuroImage, 111, 611–621. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.02.039 | PDF
Payne, J. D., Kensinger, E. A., Wamsley, E., Spreng, R. N., Alger, S., Gibler, K., Schacter, D. L., & Stickgold, R. (2015). Napping and the selective consolidation of negative aspects of scenes. Emotion, 15(2), 176–186. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038683 | PDF
De Brigard, F., Spreng, R. N., Mitchell, J. P., & Schacter, D. L. (2015). Neural activity associated with self, other, and object-based counterfactual thinking. NeuroImage, 109, 12–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.12.075 | PDF
Xu, N., Spreng, R. N., & Doerschuk, P. C. (2014, October). Directed interactivity of large-scale brain networks: Introducing a new method for estimating resting-state effective connectivity MRI. In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) (pp. 3508-3512). IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2014.7025712 | PDF
Szpunar, K. K., Spreng, R. N., & Schacter, D. L. (2014). A taxonomy of prospection: Introducing an organizational framework for future-oriented cognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 111(52), 18414–18421. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1417144111 | PDF
Gerlach, K. D., Spreng, R. N., Madore, K. P., & Schacter, D. L. (2014). Future planning: Default network activity couples with frontoparietal control network and reward-processing regions during process and outcome simulations. Social Cognitive &Affective Neuroscience, 9(12), 1942–1951. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsu001 | PDF
Spreng, R. N., DuPre, E., Selarka, D., Garcia, J., Gojkovic, S., Mildner, J., Luh, W-M., & Turner, G. R. (2014). Goal-congruent default network activity facilitates cognitive control. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(42), 14108–14114. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2815-14.2014 | PDF
Persson, J., Spreng, R. N., Turner, G. R., Herlitz, A., Morell, A., Stening, E., Wahlund, L-O., Wikström, J., & Söderlund, H. (2014). Sex differences in volume and structural covariance of the anterior and posterior hippocampus. NeuroImage, 99, 215–225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.05.038 | PDF
*Hassabis, D., *Spreng, R. N., Rusu, A. A., Robbins, C. A., Mar, R. A., & Schacter, D. L. (2014). Imagine all the people: How the brain creates and uses personality models to predict behavior. Cerebral Cortex, 24(8), 1979–1987. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bht042 | PDF | suppl.
*Authors contributed equally.
Andrews-Hanna, J. R., Smallwood, J., & Spreng, R. N. (2014). The default network and self-generated thought: Component processes, dynamic control, and clinical relevance. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: The Year in Cognitive Neuroscience, 1316(1), 29–52. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.12360 | PDF
Stevens, W. D., & Spreng, R. N. (2014). Resting-state functional connectivity MRI reveals active processes central to cognition. Wiley International Reviews (WIREs): Cognitive Science, 5(2), 233–245. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1275 | PDF
Sevinc, G., & Spreng, R. N. (2014). Contextual and perceptual brain processes underlying moral cognition: A quantitative meta-analysis of moral reasoning and moral emotions. PLoS ONE, 9(2): e87427. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087427 | PDF
Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., Gomes, C. F. A., Kenney, A. E., Gross, C. J., Taub, E. S., & Spreng, R. N. (2014). Dual-retrieval models and neurocognitive impairment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40(1), 41–65. DOI: 10.1037/a0034057 | PDF
Gaesser, B., Spreng, R. N., McLelland, V. C., Addis, D. R., & Schacter, D. L. (2013). Imagining the future: Evidence for a hippocampal contribution to constructive processing. Hippocampus, 23(12), 1150–1161. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.22152 | PDF
Mar, R. A., Spreng, R. N., & DeYoung, C. G. (2013). How to produce personality neuroscience research with high statistical power and low additional cost. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 13, 674–685. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-013-0202-6 | PDF
Spreng, R. N., & Turner, G. R. (2013). Structural covariance of the default network in healthy and pathological aging. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(38), 15226–15234. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2261-13.2013 | PDF
Spreng, R. N. (2013). Examining the role of memory in social cognition. Frontiers in Psychology (SPEC ISS), 4, Article 437. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00437 | PDF
Spreng, R. N., & Levine, B. (2013). Doing what we imagine: Completion rates and frequency attributes of imagined future events one year after prospection. Memory, 21(4), 458–466. DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2012.736524 | PDF
Patel, R., Spreng, R. N., & Turner, G. R. (2013). Functional brain changes following cognitive and motor skills training: A quantitative meta-analysis. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 27(3), 187–199. https://doi.org/10.1177/1545968312461718 | PDF
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(1), 74–86. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00281 | PDF
Schacter, D. L., Addis, D. R., Hassabis, D., Martin, V. C., Spreng, R. N., & Szpunar, K. K. (2012). The future of memory: Remembering, imagining, and the brain. Neuron, 76(4), 677–694. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2012.11.001 | PDF
Spreng, R. N., & Schacter, D. L. (2012). Default network modulation and large-scale network interactivity in healthy young and old adults. Cerebral Cortex, 22(11), 2610–2621. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr339 | PDF
Patel, R., Spreng, R. N., Shin, L. M., & Girard, T. A. (2012). Neurocircuitry models of post-traumatic stress disorder and beyond: A meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 36(9), 2130–2142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.06.003 | PDF
Spreng, R. N. (2012). The fallacy of a “task-negative” network. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 145. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00145 | PDF
Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2012). Executive functions and neurocognitive aging: Dissociable patterns of brain activity. Neurobiology of Aging, 33(4), 826.e1–826.e13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.06.005 | PDF
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(5), 43–50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2010.12.024 | PDF
Spreng, R. N., Drzezga, A., Diehl-Schmid, J., Kurz, A., Levine, B., & Perneczky, R. (2011). Relationship between occupation attributes and brain metabolism in frontotemporal dementia. Neuropsychologia, 49(13), 3699–3703. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.09.025 | PDF
Cusi, A., MacQueen, G., Spreng, R. N., & McKinnon, M. C. (2011). Altered empathic responding in major depressive disorder: Relation to symptom severity, illness burden, and psychosocial outcome. Psychiatry Research, 188(2), 231–236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2011.04.013 | PDF
Gerlach, K. D., Spreng, R. N., Gilmore, A. W., & Schacter, D. L. (2011). Solving future problems: Default network and executive activity associated with goal-directed mental simulations. NeuroImage, 55(4), 1816–1824. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.01.030 | PDF
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, 53(1), 303–317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.06.016 | PDF
Spreng, R. N., Rosen, H., Strother, S., Black, S., Chow, T., Diehl-Schmid, J., Freedman, M., Graff-Radford, N., Hodges, J., Lipton, A., Mendez, M., Morelli, S., Miller, B., & Levine, B. (2010). Occupation attributes relate to location of atrophy in frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Neuropsychologia, 48(12), 3634–3641. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.08.020 | PDF
Spreng, R. N., Wojtowicz, M., & Grady, C. (2010). Reliable differences in brain activity between young and old adults: A quantitative meta-analysis across multiple cognitive domains. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 34(8), 1178–1194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.01.009 | PDF
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(6), 1112–1123. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2009.21282 | PDF
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(3), 489–510. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2008.21029 | PDF
Spreng, R. N., McKinnon, M. C., Mar, R. A., & Levine B. (2009). The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire: Scale development and initial validation of a factor-analytic solution to multiple empathy measures. Journal of Personality Assessment, 91(1), 62–71. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223890802484381
Spreng, R. N., & Levine, B. (2006). The temporal distribution of past and future autobiographical events across the lifespan. Memory & Cognition, 34(8), 1644–1651. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03195927 | PDF
Book Chapters
Ebner, N. C., Pehlivanoglu, D., Polk, R., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2022). Aging online: Rethinking the aging decision-maker in a digital era. In Hanoch, Y., & Wood, S. (Eds.), A Fresh Look at Fraud: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives (1st ed.). Routledge A fresh look at fraud (pp. 58-87). Routledge. | PDF
Spreng, R. N., Ebner, N. C., Levin, B. E., & Turner, G. R. (2021). Aging and Financial Exploitation Risk. In Factora, R. (Ed.), Aging and Money: Reducing risk of financial exploitation and protecting financial resources (2nd ed., pp. 57-73). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.31219/OSF.IO/W2BFZ | PDF
Spreng, R. N., Turner, G. R. (2019). Structure and function of the aging brain. In Samanez-Larkin, G.R. (Ed.), The Aging Brain: Functional adaptation across adulthood (pp. 9-43). Washington DC: American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000143-002 | PDF
DuPre, E., & Spreng, R. N. (2018). Rumination is a sticky form of spontaneous thought. In Fox, K. C. R. and Christoff, K. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought: Mind-wandering, Creativity, Dreaming, and Clinical Conditions (pp. 509-520). New York: Oxford University Press. | PDF
Andrews-Hanna, J. R., Fox, K. C. R., Irving, Z. C., Spreng, R. N., & Christoff, K. (2018). The neuroscience of spontaneous thought: An evolving, interdisciplinary field. In Fox, K. C. R. and Christoff, K. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought: Mind-wandering, Creativity, Dreaming, and Clinical Conditions. New York: Oxford University Press. | PDF
Spreng, R. N., Shoemaker, L. & Turner. G. R. (2017). Executive functions and neurocognitive aging. In Goldberg, E. (Ed.), Executive functions in health and disease (pp. 169-196). Academic Press: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-803676-1.00008-8 | PDF
Laurita, A. C., & Spreng, R. N. (2017). The hippocampus and social cognition. In Hannula, D.E., & Duff, M.C. (Eds), Hippocampus from Cells to Systems: Structure, Connectivity, and Functional Contributions to Memory and Flexible Cognition (pp. 537-558). New York, NY: Springer. | PDF
Szpunar, K. K., Spreng, R. N., & Schacter, D. L. (2016). Toward a taxonomy of future thinking. In Michaelian, K., Klein, S.B., & Szpunar, K.K. (Eds), Seeing the future: Theoretical perspectives on future-oriented mental time travel (pp. 21-35). Oxford: Oxford University Press. | PDF
Spreng, R. N., & Andrews-Hanna, J. R. (2015). The default network and social cognition. In Toga, A.W. (Ed.), Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference (pp. 165-169). Academic Press: Elsevier. | PDF