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Primary and higher-order thalamic nuclei make distinct contributions to cortical reorganization in congenital sensory loss #LGN …

Primary and higher-order thalamic nuclei make distinct contributions to cortical reorganization in congenital sensory loss
Congenital sensory loss reveals how experience shapes the brain organization, yet most accounts of such plasticity have focused on cortex rather than the thalamic systems that link sensory input, cortical development, and distributed networks. Here, we tested whether primary and higher-order thalamic nuclei show distinct relationships with thalamocortical organization after early sensory loss. In congenital blindness, structural differences were focal to the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), th…

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Thalamocortical architecture shapes structural and functional plasticity after early sensory loss https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.05.743029v2 In blindness, "reduced lateral geniculate nucleus volume";

Thalamocortical architecture shapes structural and functional plasticity after early sensory loss
Early sensory loss transforms the functional organization of affected sensory systems, with regions that normally support vision or audition participating in noncanonical perceptual and cognitive functions. Such reorganization requires coordination across distributed networks. Higher-order thalamic nuclei are positioned to support these interactions through their widespread reciprocal cortical connectivity, yet studies of sensory-loss plasticity have focused primarily on cortex and first-order …