Structural MRI acquisition and preprocessing has been previously described in detail (35 (link)). Briefly, T1-weighted (T1w) brain images were obtained with a 3.0T Philips Ingenia MRI system (1 mm isotropic resolution; TR, 8.1 ms; TE, 3.7 ms; flip angle, 8°; SENSE factor 2). FSL software (64 (link)) was used for bias field correction, tissue type segmentation and non-linear registration to the MNI152 template, using a lesion mask to improve registration for participants with stroke. Lesioned voxels in the native-space T1w image were temporarily filled with MNI template voxels (65 (link)) to enable automated structure labeling with FreeSurfer software (66 (link)). Lesioned voxels were then masked out of any structure labels.
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