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A) Correlations between fractional area and behaviour were highly consistent between left and right hemispheres, and revealed relatively high correlations in higher order sensory and cognitive regions. Specifically, bilaterally significant (FDR corrected p<0.05) positive associations between larger surface area and higher scores on the positive-negative mode of population covariation were found in area POS2 of the parieto-occipital sulcus and in area IPS1 of the dorsal visual processing stream; bilaterally significant negative correlations were identified in the cingulate motor area 24dv, premotor area 6 r, and inferior parietal cortex (areas PFt, PFm, PGi). (
B) Qualitative comparison between the spatial localisation of strongest correlations with behaviour across all three datasets reveals that many regions that contribute strongly in either the HCP_MMP1.0 or in the PFM individual subject spatial estimates spatially overlap or adjoin cortical areas in which fractional surface area was also closely linked to behaviour. This qualitative finding suggests that differences in regional surface area may drive many of the results presented in this work, although further research is needed to confirm this interpretation (for visual comparison the PFM correlation maps are shown using a higher threshold p
FDR <0.0001, |r| > 0.218, and HCP_MMP1.0 correlation maps are correlated at p
FDR <0.05; |r| > 0.159). (
C) Un-thresholded HCP_MMP1.0 correlations with CCA subject weights; these are the maximum absolute r across all parcels, and therefore do not contain the parcel structure itself. (
D) Un-thresholded PFM correlations with CCA subject weights (maximum absolute r across all PFMs). The cortical localisation of strong associations with behaviour do not closely overlap between PFMs and the HCP_MMP1.0 parcellation (i.e. red and blue regions in B and un-thresholded maps in C/D). This lack of exact correspondence of the representations of cross-subject variability may reflect differences between the HCP_MMP1.0 and PROFUMO models (the former being a hard parcellation with no overlap between parcels, and the latter being a soft parcellation that includes complex and often overlapping networks), and differences in the data types driving the parcellation (PROFUMO being driven by rfMRI data only, and the HCP_MMP1.0 parcellation being driven by data from multiple different modalities). Data available at
https://balsa.wustl.edu/mK28.