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ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2025

Sensory modality-specific wiring of thalamocortical circuits.

Teresa Guillamón-Vivancos, Mar Aníbal-Martínez, Lorenzo Puche-Aroca, Francisco J Martini, Guillermina López-Bendito

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Review in Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Binocular Circuitry as a Model for Understanding Experience-Dependent Circuit Development across the Mammalian Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Teresa Guillamón-Vivancos *Instituto de Neurociencias, Universidad Miguel Hernández-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (UMH-CSIC), San Juan de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
Mar Aníbal-Martínez *Instituto de Neurociencias, Universidad Miguel Hernández-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (UMH-CSIC), San Juan de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7117-1048
Lorenzo Puche-ArocaInstituto de Neurociencias, Universidad Miguel Hernández-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (UMH-CSIC), San Juan de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3787-293X
Francisco J MartiniInstituto de Neurociencias, Universidad Miguel Hernández-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (UMH-CSIC), San Juan de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
Guillermina López-BenditoInstituto de Neurociencias, Universidad Miguel Hernández-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (UMH-CSIC), San Juan de Alicante, Alicante, Spain. g.lbendito@umh.es.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8965-6836

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The thalamus is an essential element for sensory information processing, serving as a link between peripheral sensory stimuli and cortical circuits. Consequently, the development of thalamocortical (TC) projections has been a central focus in systems neuroscience. Although substantial progress has been made in understanding the mechanisms guiding thalamic axon navigation from the diencephalon to the cortex, our understanding of the processes underlying sensory modality specificity in TC circuits remains incomplete. Modern genomic, physiological and imaging approaches have yielded exciting results, providing novel insights into the specialization of visual, somatosensory and auditory TC circuits. Recent findings have shed light on the genetic and spontaneous activity mechanisms involved in the formation of distinct sensory modalities, rekindling the interest in the thalamus and opening new research perspectives on the development of this diencephalic structure.

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Cerebral CortexNerve NetNeural PathwaysThalamusAnimalsHumans

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PMID40745219
PMCPMC7619050

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