Figure 2

Structural differences between unimodal and multimodal pipelines. Top panel: difference in cortical thickness at the vertex level, stronger within the bilateral insula (first row); differences in the gyrification index at vertex level (second row). Middle panel: significant differences in cortical thickness (left) and gyrification index (right) within frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital cortices were found between the two processing modalities. Significantly thicker cortical thickness was reported for the multimodal pipeline, compared to the unimodal pipelines. Significantly higher gyrification index was reported for the unimodal pipeline, compared to the multimodal pipelines. Bottom panel: subdivision of the Desikan–Killiany atlas parcels for the four lobes.