Therefore, in case of the removal of visual input, nonvisual inputs in visual cortex may be rapidly unsuppressed. This model has been used to explain the rapid neural plasticity observed in the tactical domain in temporarily blindfolded participants, and may be applicable to other neural systems as well. The model is also consistent with the increasingly accepted notion that primary sensory cortices receive inputs from other sensory modalities, and are thus not limited to unimodal processing of sensory information