{"id":220237,"date":"2025-08-16T07:21:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/visual-thalamus-reshapes-information-beyond-simple-relay-function-study-finds"},"modified":"2025-08-16T07:21:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:21:57","slug":"visual-thalamus-reshapes-information-beyond-simple-relay-function-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/visual-thalamus-reshapes-information-beyond-simple-relay-function-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Visual thalamus reshapes information beyond simple relay function, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/visual-thalamus-reshapes-information-beyond-simple-relay-function-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you see something\u2014a tree in your backyard, say, or the toy your toddler hands you\u2014that visual information travels from your retinas to your brain. And like a train stopping at stations along its route, the information pauses at particular regions of the brain where it\u2019s processed and sent along to its next location.<\/p>\n<p>A region called the visual thalamus has been thought to be primarily a relay, simply directing <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/visual+information\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">visual information<\/a> to its next area. But a new study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.neuron.2025.07.015\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Neuron<\/i><\/a> finds that the thalamus actually integrates additional information from other <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+regions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain regions<\/a> and reshapes the information it sends along to the brain cortex.<\/p>\n<p>Liang Liang, Ph.D., assistant professor of neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and senior author of the study, suspected the thalamus might be doing more than it had been given credit for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you see something\u2014a tree in your backyard, say, or the toy your toddler hands you\u2014that visual information travels from your retinas to your brain. And like a train stopping at stations along its route, the information pauses at particular regions of the brain where it\u2019s processed and sent along to its next location. A [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}