The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire: scale development and initial validation of a factor-analytic solution to multiple empathy measuresR Nathan Spreng
Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Pers Assess 91:62-71. 2009
..Moreover, it exhibited good internal consistency and high test-retest reliability. The TEQ is a brief, reliable, and valid instrument for the assessment of empathy...
Reliable differences in brain activity between young and old adults: a quantitative meta-analysis across multiple cognitive domainsR Nathan Spreng
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 34:1178-94. 2010
..No age-related differences were found in the parietal lobes. We discuss the reliable differences in brain activation with regards to current theories of neurocognitive aging...
- Intrinsic architecture underlying the relations among the default, dorsal attention, and frontoparietal control networks of the human brain
R Nathan Spreng
Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 25:74-86. 2013
..The results provide evidence consistent with the idea that the frontoparietal control network plays a pivotal gate-keeping role in goal-directed cognition, mediating the dynamic balance between default and dorsal attention networks...
- Default network modulation and large-scale network interactivity in healthy young and old adults
R Nathan Spreng
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Cereb Cortex 22:2610-21. 2012
..Rather, a failure to modulate the default network in old adults is indicative of a lower degree of flexible network interactivity and reduced dynamic range of network modulation to changing task demands...
- I remember you: a role for memory in social cognition and the functional neuroanatomy of their interaction
R Nathan Spreng
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Brain Res 1428:43-50. 2012
..This knowledge, in turn, informs strategic social behavior in support of personal goals. In closing, we argue for a new perspective within social cognitive neuroscience, emphasizing the importance of memory in social cognition...
- Relationship between occupation attributes and brain metabolism in frontotemporal dementia
R Nathan Spreng
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuropsychologia 49:3699-703. 2011
..Specific occupation demands spanning decades may strengthen cognitive resistance to pathology...
- Occupation attributes relate to location of atrophy in frontotemporal lobar degeneration
R Nathan Spreng
Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
Neuropsychologia 48:3634-41. 2010
..Alternatively, long-term engagement of activities associated with these occupations contributed to left-lateralized reserve, right-lateralized dysfunction, or both...
- Default network activity, coupled with the frontoparietal control network, supports goal-directed cognition
R Nathan Spreng
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138, USA
Neuroimage 53:303-17. 2010
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- Patterns of brain activity supporting autobiographical memory, prospection, and theory of mind, and their relationship to the default mode network
R Nathan Spreng
Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Cogn Neurosci 22:1112-23. 2010
..We conclude that the DMN supports common aspects of these cognitive behaviors involved in simulating an internalized experience...
- The common neural basis of autobiographical memory, prospection, navigation, theory of mind, and the default mode: a quantitative meta-analysis
R Nathan Spreng
Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre, Toronto, Canada
J Cogn Neurosci 21:489-510. 2009
..Autobiographical memory and theory of mind, previously studied as distinct, exhibited extensive functional overlap. These findings represent quantitative evidence for a core network underlying a variety of cognitive domains...
- The temporal distribution of past and future autobiographical events across the lifespan
R Nathan Spreng
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mem Cognit 34:1644-51. 2006
..These data provide empirical support for the notion that thinking outside of "now" is mediated by a common system, regardless of whether one is thinking about the past or the future...
- Executive functions and neurocognitive aging: dissociable patterns of brain activity
Gary R Turner
Heart and Stroke Foundation Centre for Stroke Recovery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Neurobiol Aging 33:826.e1-13. 2012
..These data provide the first quantitative meta-analytic evidence that age-related patterns of functional brain change during executive functioning depend on the specific control process being challenged...
- Solving future problems: default network and executive activity associated with goal-directed mental simulations
Kathy D Gerlach
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuroimage 55:1816-24. 2011
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- Altered empathic responding in major depressive disorder: relation to symptom severity, illness burden, and psychosocial outcome
Andrée M Cusi
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Psychiatry Res 188:231-6. 2011
..Further longitudinal work is needed to characterize the relation between social cognitive performance and social functioning in this population...
- The future of memory: remembering, imagining, and the brain
Daniel L Schacter
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuron 76:677-94. 2012
..This growing area of research has broadened our conception of memory by highlighting the many ways in which memory supports adaptive functioning...
- Functional brain changes following cognitive and motor skills training: a quantitative meta-analysis
Ronak Patel
Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada
Neurorehabil Neural Repair 27:187-99. 2013
..Reliable neural markers may provide standard metrics of treatment impact and allow consideration of behavioral outcomes in the context of functional brain changes...
- Doing what we imagine: Completion rates and frequency attributes of imagined future events one year after prospection
R Nathan Spreng
a Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Memory 21:458-66. 2013
..Together, the results provide an important validation for prospection research and highlight novel dimensions in the temporal structure of future-thinking...
- Neurocircuitry models of posttraumatic stress disorder and beyond: a meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies
Ronak Patel
Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 36:2130-42. 2012
..Nonetheless, these results warrant further exploration of the neurocircuitry and large-scale network models in PTSD using connectivity analyses...
