I'm using Freesurfer to generate surfaces, and after running the SUMA_Make_Spec_FS script I end up having 2 separate spec files for the right and left hemisphere.

I'm wondring what the suggested way is to have them both in the surface viewer at the same time and mapping FMRI activation to it:

To view them together I created a combined spec file, where I just pasted the surface entries of the other hemisphere at the end (without any further changes).

Question 1) Is this the right way to see them both simultaneously?

Then I use The Vol2Surf plugin to visualize my FMRI activation on the surface. I'd like to see the maximum between the smoothed white matter and pial surface.

As I have both hemispheres at once I set surf_pair0 to surf_A=0 and surf_B=1, and surf_pair_1 to surf_A=3 and surf_B=4.

The debug output tells me:
+d surf_A label: 'lh.smoothwm.asc'
+d surf_B label: 'lh.pial.asc'
+d surf_A label: 'rh.smoothwm.asc'
+d surf_B label: 'rh.pial.asc'

Question 2) Is this the right way to use the surf_pair settings in Vol2Surf when having both hemispheres at the same time (like elaborated above)?

Thanks much,
Wolfgang