| Abstrakt | | The processing of sensory information in the primate sensory systems is briefly described. Our sensations and perception ultimately serve to direct our behaviour and lead our actions by continuously solving two principal questions; what is the object of our interest and where it is. Incoming sensory signals from the surrounding world are reaching sensory cortical areas through parallel subchannels, each one processing the distinct aspect of the sensory stimulus. Early neurobiological strategy of sensory analysis is therefore functional segregation. Some principles of sensory analysis have been identified in single unit recordings, like lateral inhibition, hierarchical and parallel processing, receptive field integration and functional modularity, and some interesting computational theories of information processing can be applied. Ultimately, these parallel input signals must be elaborated upon and integrated within the cortex to provide a unified and coherent percept. The psychobiological strategy of sensory analysis is therefore integrative. The ongoing percepts of the surrounding world are continuously constructed by the brain and these processes are still awaiting further neurobiological explanations of the phenomena.
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