PUBLICATIONS
2026
Lempert, K. M., Spreng, R. N. & Lee, D. M. (2026). Introduction to special issue: Decision neuroscience and aging. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 81(9), gbag152. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbag152 | PDF
Hewan, P., Villeneuve, S., Wearn, A., Hogeveen, J., Williams, K., Spreng, R. N., Turner, G. R., Poirier, J., Breitner, J. C. S., Baillet, S., Baril, A.-A., Bellec, P., Bohbot, V., Bzdok, D., Chakravarty, M., Collins, D. L., Dadar, M., Ducharme, S., Evans, A., et al. (2026). Cortical microstructural integrity predicts an exploitation bias in older adulthood. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 81(9). https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbag132 | PDF
Savignac, C., St-Onge, F., Villeneuve, S., Badhwar, A., Gagliano Taliun, S. A., Farhan, S., Geddes, M., Iturria Medina, Y., Poirier, J., Spreng, R. N., & Bzdok, D. (2026). Parent-of-origin effects in Alzheimer’s liability dissociate neurocognitive and cardiovascular traits in at-risk individuals. Cell Reports Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2026.102943 | PDF
Oh, Y., Ann, Y., Lee, J.-J., Ito, T., Froudist-Walsh, S., Paquola, C., Milham, M., Spreng, R. N., Margulies, D., Bernhardt, B., Woo, C.-W. & Hong, S.-J., (2026). State-dependent signal flow hierarchy in the human cerebral cortex. Nature Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-026-02389-8 | PDF
Diveica, V., Setton, R., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2026). Goal-directed modulation of the default network supports interactions between selective attention, working memory, and prior knowledge. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(29). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2605179123 | PDF
Wearn, A., Onuska, K. M., Shanks, H. R. C., Gaurav, R., Lehéricy, S., Baracchini, G., Hughes, C., Tremblay‐Mercier, J., Narayanan, S., Breitner, J., Poirier, J., Schmitz, T. W., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2026). Locus coeruleus degeneration is associated with cortical tau deposition and cognitive decline in older adults at familial risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 22. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.71427 | PDF
Wearn, A., Onuska, K. M., Schmitz, T. W., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2026). The neuromodulatory fragility hypothesis of Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis. Alzheimer’s & Dementia : The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, 22(3), e71249. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.71249 | PDF
Davidson, E. J., & Spreng, R. N. (2026). Anticorrelation emerges within a dynamic and competitive neural landscape. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101621 | PDF
Onuska, K. M., Shanks, H. R. C., Devito, L. A., Qi, Q., Crooks, A. M., Germán-Castelán, L., Ngo, G. N., Haast, R. A. M., Andrews, T. S., Williams, K. M., Beraldo, F. H., Qiu, T., Fajardo-Valdez, A., Remz, J., Wearn, A., Turner, G. R., Aumont, E., Thiessen, J. D., Fox, M. S., Hicks, J. W., Bussey, T. J., Saksida, L. M., Tremblay-Mercier, J., Breitner, J. C. S., Soucy, J.-P., Poirier, J., Bedard, M.-A., Villeneuve, S., Prado, V. F., Spreng, R. N., Schmitz, T. W., the PREVENT-AD Research Group. (2026). Cholinergic synaptic plasticity shapes resilience and vulnerability to tau. bioRxiv, 2025.05.27.656174. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.27.656174 | PDF
Edgar, N., da Silva Castanheira, K., Turner, G. R., Spreng, R. N., Vassena, E., & Otto, A. R. (2026). Correction: The neural basis of cost-benefit trade-offs in effort investment: a quantitative activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-026-01468-4 | PDF
Baracchini, G., Zhou, Y., da Silva Castanheira, J., Hansen, J. Y., Fenerci, C., Setton, R., Rieck, J. R., Turner, G. R., Grady, C. L., Misic, B., Nomi, J. S., Uddin, L. Q., & Spreng, R. N. (2026). The biological role of local and global fMRI BOLD signal variability in multiscale human brain organization. Nature Communications, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-68700-0 | PDF
Volpi, L. P., Spreng, R. N., & Farivar, R. (2026). Neural correlates of 3D versus 2D perception: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Neuropsychologia, 221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109329 | PDF
2025
Potvin-Jutras, Z., Tremblay, P.-L., Mohammadi, H., Villeneuve, S., Spreng, R. N., & Gauthier, C. J. (2025). Longitudinal effects of cerebrovascular reactivity and cerebral pulsatility in cognitively intact older adults with APOE4: links with cognition. GeroScience : Official Journal of the American Aging Association (AGE), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-025-02036-3 | PDF
Wearn, A., Tardif, C. L., Leppert, I. R., Baracchini, G., Hughes, C., Tremblay-Mercier, J., Breitner, J., Poirier, J., Villeneuve, S., Bernhardt, B. C., Turner, G. R., Spreng, R. N., the PREVENT-AD Research Group, Villeneuve, S., Poirier, J., Breitner, J. C. S., Baillet, S., Baril, A.-A., Bellec, P., … Auld, D. (2025). Quantitative MRI of the hippocampus reveals microstructural trajectories of aging and Alzheimer’s disease pathology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(44), e2502674122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2502674122 | PDF
Villeneuve, S., Poirier, J., Breitner, J. C. S., Tremblay‐Mercier, J., Remz, J., Raoult, J., Yakoub, Y., Gallego‐Rudolf, J., Qiu, T., Fajardo Valdez, A., Mohammediyan, B., Javanray, M., Metz, A., Sanami, S., Ourry, V., Wearn, A., Pastor‐Bernier, A., Edde, M., Gonneaud, J., … the PREVENT‐AD Research Group. (2025). The PREVENT‐AD cohort: Accelerating Alzheimer’s disease research and treatment in Canada and beyond. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 21(10), e70653. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70653 | PDF
Bolt, T., Wang, S., Nomi, J. S., Setton, R., Gold, B. P., deB Frederick, B., Yeo, B. T. T., Chen, J. J., Picchioni, D., Duyn, J. H., Spreng, R. N., Keilholz, S. D., Uddin, L. Q., & Chang, C. (2025). Autonomic physiological coupling of the global fMRI signal. Nature Neuroscience, 28(6), 1327–1335. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-01945-y | PDF
Kong, R., Spreng, R. N., Xue, A., Betzel, R. F., Cohen, J. R., Damoiseaux, J. S., De Brigard, F., Eickhoff, S. B., Fornito, A., & Gratton, C. (2025). A network correspondence toolbox for quantitative evaluation of novel neuroimaging results. Nature Communications, 16(1), 2930. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58176-9 | PDF
Tremblay, S. A., Spreng, R. N., Wearn, A., Alasmar, Z., Pirhadi, A., Tardif, C. L., Chakravarty, M. M., Villeneuve, S., Leppert, I. R., Carbonell, F., Medina, Y. I., Steele, C. J., Gauthier, C. J., & PREVENT-AD Research Group. (2025). Sex and APOE4-specific links between cardiometabolic risk factors and white matter alterations in individuals with a family history of Alzheimer’s disease. Neurobiology of Aging, 150, 80–96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2025.03.003 | PDF
Hughes, C., Ebner, N. C., Pehlivanoglu, D., Heemskerk, A., Lin, T., Ten Brinke, L., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2025). Dissociable brain activity for high-stakes deception detection in young and older adults. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 20(1), nsaf088. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaf088 | PDF
Taza, M., Schmitz, T. W., & Spreng, R. N. (2025). Structural changes to the basal forebrain cholinergic system in the continuum of Alzheimer disease. Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 211, 81–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-19088-9.00013-5 | PDF
Hughes, C., Pehlivanoglu, D., Heemskerk, A., Polk, R., Turner, G. R., Ebner, N. C., & Spreng, R. N. (2025). Age differences in mental state inference of sarcasm: Contributions of facial emotion recognition and cognitive performance. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 80(1), gbae188. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae188 | PDF
DeYoung, C. G., Hilger, K., Hanson, J. L., Abend, R., Allen, T. A., Beaty, R. E., Blain, S. D., Chavez, R. S., Engel, S. A., Feilong, M., Fornito, A., Genç, E., Goghari, V., Grazioplene, R. G., Homan, P., Joyner, K., Kaczkurkin, A. N., Latzman, R. D., Martin, E. A., Nikolaidis, A.N., Pickering, A. D., Safron, A., Sassenberg, T. A., Servaas, M. N., Smillie, L.D., Spreng, R. N., Viding, E., & Wacker, J. (2025). Beyond increasing sample sizes: Optimizing effect sizes in neuroimaging research on individual differences. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 37(6), 1023–1034. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02297 | PDF
Yang, L., & Foo, S. (2025). Memory selectivity of younger and older adults: The interactive effects of valence and subjective value. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology = Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 79(4), 329–337. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000393 | PDF
2024
Hughes, C., Pehlivanoglu, D., Heemskerk, A., Polk, R., Turner, G. R., Ebner, N. C., & Spreng, R. N. (2024). Age Differences in Mental State Inference of Sarcasm: Contributions of Facial Emotion Recognition and Cognitive Performance. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 80(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae188 | PDF
Denis, D., DiPietro, C., Spreng, R. N., Schacter, D. L., Stickgold, R., & Payne, J. D. (2024). Sleep and retrieval practice both strengthen and distort story recollection. Sleep Advances, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/sleepadvances/zpae083 | PDF
Baracchini, G., Yu, J.-C., Rieck, J., Beaton, D., Guillemot, V., Grady, C., Abdi, H., & Spreng, R. N. (2024). covSTATIS: a multi-table technique for network neuroscience. Aperture Neuro, 4. https://doi.org/10.52294/001c.124518 | PDF
Heemskerk, A., Lin, T., Pehlivanoglu, D., Hakim, Z., Valdes-Hernandez, P. A., Ten Brinke, L., Grilli, M. D., Wilson, R. C., Turner, G. R., Spreng, R. N., & Ebner, N. C. (2024). Interoceptive Accuracy Enhances Deception Detection in Older Adults. The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 79(11). https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae151 | PDF
Girn, M., Setton, R., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2024). The “Limbic Network”, comprising orbitofrontal and anterior temporal cortex, is part of an extended default network: Evidence from multi-echo fmri. Network Neuroscience, 1–40. https://doi.org/10.1162/netn_a_00385| PDF
Fenerci, C., Setton, R., Baracchini, G., Snytte, J., Spreng, R. N., & Sheldon, S. (2024). Lifespan differences in hippocampal subregion connectivity patterns during movie watching. Neurobiology of Aging, 141, 182–193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2024.06.006 | PDF
Hughes, C., Setton, R., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Baracchini, G., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2024). Precision mapping of the default network reveals common and distinct (inter)activity for autobiographical memory and theory of mind. Journal of Neurophysiology. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00427.2023 | PDF
Pehlivanoglu, D., Shoenfelt, A., Hakim, Z., Heemskerk, A., Zhen, J., Mosqueda, M., Wilson, R. C., Huentelman, M., Grilli, M. D., Turner, G., Spreng, R. N., & Ebner, N. C. (2024). Phishing vulnerability compounded by older age, apolipoprotein E e4 genotype, and lower cognition. PNAS Nexus, 3(8). https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae296 | PDF
Stieger, J. R., Pinheiro-Chagas, P., Fang, Y., Li, J., Lusk, Z., Perry, C. M., Girn, M., Contreras, D., Chen, Q., Huguenard, J. R., Spreng, R. N., Edlow, B. L., Wagner, A. D., Buch, V., & Parvizi, J. (2024). Cross-regional coordination of activity in the human brain during autobiographical self-referential processing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(32), e2316021121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2316021121 | PDF
Wearn, A., Tremblay, S. A., Tardif, C. L., Leppert, I. R., Gauthier, C. J., Baracchini, G., Hughes, C., Hewan, P., Tremblay-Mercier, J., Rosa-Neto, P., Poirier, J., Villeneuve, S., Schmitz, T. W., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2024). Neuromodulatory subcortical nucleus integrity is associated with white matter microstructure, Tauopathy and APOE status. Nature Communications, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48490-z | PDF
Turner, G. R., Hewan, P., Wearn, A., van Dooren, R., Wyatt, L., Leppert, I. R., Baracchini, G., Hughes, C., Williams, K. M., Sylvain, E., Tremblay-Mercier, J., Poirier, J., Villeneuve, S., Tardif, C., Spreng, R. N., & PREVENT-AD Research Group (2024). Locus Coeruleus integrity is related to an exploitation-based decision-making bias in older adulthood. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(22). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2322617121 | PDF
Walker, C. S., Li, L., Baracchini, G., Tremblay-Mercier, J., Spreng, R. N., PREVENT-AD Research Group, & Geddes, M. R. (2024). Neurobehavioral mechanisms influencing the association between generativity, the desire to promote well-being of younger generations, and purpose in life in older adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, gbae060. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae060 | PDF
Thovinakere, N., Ai, M., Colina, A. N., Walker, C., Baracchini, G., Tremblay-Mercier, J., Villeneuve, S., Spreng, R. N., & Geddes, M. R. (2024). Ventromedial frontoinsular connectivity is associated with long-term smoking behavior change in aging. Imaging Neuroscience, 2, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00142| PDF
Zhou, J., Wearn, A., Huck, J., Hughes, C., Baracchini, G., Tremblay-Mercier, J., Poirier, J., Villeneuve, S., Tardif, C. L., Chakravarty, M. M., Daugherty, A. M., Gauthier, C. J., Turner, G. R., Spreng R. N., & PREVENT-AD Research Group. (2024). Iron deposition and distribution across the hippocampus is associated with pattern separation and pattern completion in older adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Neuroscience, 22 February 2024, e1973232024. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1973-23.2024 | PDF
Shafiee, N., Fonov, V., Dadar, M., Spreng, R. N., & Collins, D. L. (2024). Degeneration in Nucleus basalis of Meynert signals earliest stage of Alzheimer’s disease progression. Neurobiology of Aging, 139, 54-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2024.03.003 | PDF
Tavakol, S., Kebets, V., Royer, J., Li, Q., Auer, H., DeKraker, J., Jefferies, E., Bernasconi, N., Bernasconi, A., Helmstaedter, C., Arafat, T., Armony, J., Spreng, R. N., Caciagli, L., Frauscher, B., Smallwood J., & Bernhardt, B. (2024). Differential relational memory impairment in temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior, 155, 109722. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2024.109722 | PDF
Qiu, T., Liu, Z. Q., Rheault, F., Legarreta, J. H., Valcourt Caron, A., St‐Onge, F., Strikwerda‐Brown, C., Metz, A., Dadar, M., Soucy, J-P., Binette, A. P., Spreng, R. N., Descoteaux, M., Villeneuve, S., & PREVENT‐AD Research Group. (2024). Structural white matter properties and cognitive resilience to tau pathology. Alzheimer's & Dementia. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13776 | PDF
Snytte, J., Setton, R., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Rajah, M. N., Sheldon, S., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2024). Structure–Function Interactions in the Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex Are Associated with Episodic Memory in Healthy Aging. eNeuro, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0418-23.2023 | PDF
Nomi, J. S., Bzdok, D., Li, J., Bolt, T., Chang, C., Kornfeld, S., Goodman, Z. T., Yeo, BT. T., Spreng, R. N., & Uddin, L. Q. (2024). Systematic cross-sectional age-associations in global fMRI signal topography. Imaging Neuroscience, 2, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00101 | PDF
Wyatt, L. E., Hewan, P. A., Hogeveen, J., Spreng, R. N., & Turner, G. R. (2023). Exploration versus exploitation decisions in the human brain: A systematic review of functional neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies. Neuropsychologia, 192, 108740. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108740 | PDF
Luppi, A. I., Girn, M., Rosas, F. E., Timmermann, C., Roseman, L., Erritzoe, D., Nutt, D. J., Stamatakis, E. A., Spreng, R. N., Xing, L., Huttner, W. B., & Carhart-Harris, R. L. (2024). A role for the serotonin 2A receptor in the expansion and functioning of human transmodal cortex. Brain : A Journal of Neurology, 147(1), 56–80. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awad311 | PDF
Sheldon, S., Sheldon, J., Zhang, S., Setton, R., Turner, G. R., Spreng, R. N., & Grilli, M. D. (2023). Differences in the content and coherence of autobiographical memories between younger and older adults: Insights from text analysis. Psychology and Aging, 39(1), 59-71. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000769 | PDF
Janelt, T., Altmann, T., Spreng, R. N., & Roth, M. (2024). Analyzing the factor structure of the Toronto empathy questionnaire: Dimensionality, reliability, validity, measurement invariance and one-year stability of the German version. Journal of Personality Assessment, 106(2), 230-241. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2023.2224873 | PDF
Lockrow, A. W., Setton, R., Spreng, K. A., Sheldon, S., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2024). Taking stock of the past: A psychometric evaluation of the Autobiographical Interview. Behavior Research Methods, 56(2), 1002-1038. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02080-x | PDF
2023
Wearn, A., Raket, L. L., Collins, D. L., Spreng, R. N., & Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. (2023). Longitudinal changes in hippocampal texture from healthy aging to Alzheimer’s disease. Brain Communications, 5(4), fcad195. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcad195 | PDF
St-Onge, F., Javanray, M., Pichet Binette, A., Strikwerda-Brown, C., Remz, J., Spreng, R. N., Shafiei, G., Misic, B., Vachon-Presseau, É., & Villeneuve, S. (2023). Functional connectome fingerprinting across the lifespan. Network Neuroscience, 7(3), 1206-1227. https://doi.org/10.1162/netn_a_00320 | PDF
Girn, M., Spreng, R. N., Margulies, D. S., Van Elk, M., & Lifshitz, M. (2023). Trait absorption is not reliably associated with brain structure or resting-state functional connectivity. Neuroimage: Reports, 3(2), 100171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynirp.2023.100171 | PDF
Paquet, C., Whitehead, J., Shah, R., Adams, A. M., Dooley, D., Spreng, R. N., Aunio, A-L., & Dubé, L. (2023). Social Prescription Interventions Addressing Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults: Meta-Review Integrating On-the-Ground Resources. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25. https://doi.org/10.2196/40213 | PDF
MacLean, M. W., Hadid, V., Spreng, R. N., & Lepore, F. (2023). Revealing robust neural correlates of conscious and unconscious visual processing: Activation likelihood estimation meta-analyses. NeuroImage, 273, 120088. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120088 | PDF
Pehlivanoglu, D., Lin, T., Lighthall, N. R., Wilson, R. C., Turner, G. R., Spreng, R. N., & Ebner, N. C. (2023). Facial trustworthiness perceptions across the adult lifespan. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 78(3), 434-444. DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbac166 | PDF
Walker, C. S., Li, L., Baracchini, G., Tremblay-Mercier, J., Spreng, R. N., Geddes, M. R., & PREVENT-AD Research Group. (2023). The influence of generativity on purpose in life is mediated by social support and moderated by prefrontal functional connectivity in at-risk older adults. bioRxiv : The Preprint Server for Biology. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.26.530089 | PDF
Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Setton, R., Bzdok, D., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2023). Age differences in functional brain networks associated with loneliness and empathy. Network Neuroscience, 7(2), 496-521. https://doi.org/10.1162/netn_a_00293 | PDF
Sassenberg, T. A., Burton, P. C., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Jung, R. E., Rustichini, A., Spreng, R. N., & DeYoung, C. G. (2023). Conscientiousness associated with efficiency of the salience/ventral attention network: Replication in three samples using individualized parcellation. NeuroImage, 272, 120081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120081 | 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 Network Neuroscience, 7(3), 864-905. https://doi.org/10.1162/netn_a_00323 | PDF
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 | PDF
2022
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
Vago, D. R., Farb, N., & Spreng, R. N. (2022). Clarifying Internally-Directed Cognition: A Commentary on the Attention to Thoughts Model. Psychological Inquiry, 33(4), 261-272. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2022.2141005
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. 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, R. 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.neuroimage.2020.117666
Anderson, 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
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, R. 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