We appreciate the concerns of Drs. Maldonado, Smirnov, and Destrieux about our review article "Hodology of the superior longitudinal system of the human brain: a historical perspective, the current controversies, and a proposal" (Vavassori et al., 2021). We agree that we need further investigations on the white matter association systems' multilayer architecture, which we described as a palisading topographical arrangement, to benefit from more detailed descriptions of the cortical terminations.