On the fundamental role of anatomy in functional imaging: Reply to commentaries on "In praise of tedious anatomy"

We would like to thank all of the authors for their engaging and enlightening commentaries on our target article. It is heartening that there was such a great deal of agreement among the commentators with many of the points made in our article. Here we will highlight several points of agreement, note several remaining points of contention, and discuss a number of issues raised in the commentaries. We hope that this set of papers can together serve both as a roadmap for future work and as an impetus for further improvement of practices in the field, such that all researchers will come to agree that “anatomy is not tedious: it is fundamental” (Passingham, 2007).