Spreng

Please welcome our newest faculty member, Nathan Spreng, assistant professor in the department of human development in Cornell’s College of Human Ecology. Spreng is Director of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition. His research examines large-scale brain network dynamics and their role in cognition. Currently, he is investigating the link between autobiography and imagination, how we conceive of the future, and successful navigation of the social world. These investigations extend to the related processes of memory, cognitive control, and social cognition and the interacting brain networks that support them. He is also actively involved in the development and implementation of multivariate and network-based statistical approaches to assess brain activity. In doing so, he hopes to better understand the properties of the brain networks underlying complex cognitive processes as they change across the lifespan.

Spreng comes to us from Department of Psychology at Harvard University where he was a postdoctoral research fellow.