MG (Medial geniculate complex) functionally connects to BLA (basal amygdaloid nucleus)

A minority of the projection neurons that responded with evoked spikes to stimulation of the auditory thalamus or auditory association cortex were histologically localized to the basolateral nucleus rather than the lateral nucleus (4 cells in the D1 experiment, 7 in the D2 experiment), indicating these afferents also drive basolateral neurons.

Made by an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5, extract@0.3.0); a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) is unsure. “The 4 and 7 BLA cells are pooled across both stimulation sites, so the text doesn't show that any of them responded to MGN rather than Te3.”