To put this number in perspective, the U.S. currently has just over 330 million active connections in all.

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Nerves from a part of the rat brain known as the basal forebrain are thought to secrete the chemical acetylcholine into the brain's main vision center, also called the primary visual cortex, reinforcing connections that were recently active.

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