Paper on a New Framework (V1SH-Bottleneck-CPD framework) to understand vision from the perspective of the primary visual cortex

Zhaoping, L. (2019) A new framework for understanding vision from the perspective of the primary visual cortex , Current Opinion in Neurobiology, volume 58, pages 1-10.

Experimental data confirming, or consistent with, the prediction that top-down feedback mainly target central visual field in ventral stream

Morales-Gregorio et al 2024 Neural manifolds in V1 change with top-down signals from V4 targeting the foveal region , Cell reports, 2024

Sims et al 2021 Frontal cortical regions associated with attention connect more strongly to central than peripheral V1 , NeuroImage, 2021.

Behavioral data demonstrating and supporting the Dichotomy between central and peripheral vision

Zhaoping, L. (2024) Looking with or without seeing in an individual with age-related macular degeneration impairing central vision i-Perception, 15(4), 1-5, https://doi.org/10.1177/20416695241265821

Zhaoping, L. (2024) Peripheral vision is mainly for looking rather than seeing Neuroscience Research https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neures.2023.11.006

Zhaoping, L. (2023) Periphoeral and central sensation: Multisensory orienting and recognition across species Trends for Cognitive Sciences, Vol 27, issue 6, page 539-552.

Zhaoping, L. (2021) Seeing reversed depth in contrast-reversed random-dot stereograms in central vision 43rd European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2021)

Zhaoping, L. (2021) Contrast-reversed binocular dot-pairs in random-dot stereograms for depth perception in central visual field: Probing the dynamics of feedforward-feedback processes in visual inference, Vision Research, vol. 186, pages 124-139.

Zhaoping, L. (2020) The flip tilt illusion: visible in peripheral vision as predicted by the Central-Peripheral Dichotomy (CPD). i-Perception, 11(4), 1--5. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669520938408

Zhaoping L. and Ackermann J. (2018) Reversed Depth in Anticorrelated Random-Dot Stereograms and the Central-Peripheral Difference in Visual Inference Perception, 47(5) 531-539, https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006618758571

Zhaoping L. (2017) Feedback from higher to lower visual areas for visual recognition may be weaker in the periphery: glimpses from the perception of brief dichoptic stimuli. Vision Research, 136: 32--49.

Nuthmann A. (2014) How do the regions of the visual field contribute to object search in real-world scenes? Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40(1), 342-360. This paper shows dissociation between looking by peripheral vision and seeing by central vision, supporting the central-peripheral dichotomy.

a quick glimpse from this 2024 video on the V1SH-Bottleneck-CPD framework

this 9 minute video

Lectures and Presentations

"Recurrence through bottleneck: theory-driven experiments on the central-peripheral dichotomy", presentation in Redwood Institute, UC Berkeley, May 2024

"Looking and seeing in human vision in light of a severe attentional processing bottleneck in the brain", presentation in Redwood Institute, UC Berkeley, July 2023

keynote speech at CNS*2020: A new computational framework for understanding vision in our brain

keynote speech at CNS*2020: A new computational framework for understanding vision in our brain

From V1SH to CPD: feedforward, feedback, and the attentional bottleneck in vision". a seminar talk in June 2021 at Neurospin

seminar at UCSD, Oct. 2020 " "From V1SH to CPD in a new framework for understanding vision"

The central-peripheral dichotomy in visual decoding A lecture for a summer school 2019.

A 2021 video is this talk in June 2021

A Lecture at KITP in UCSB, Sep. 2018

You may also see Zhaoping, L. (2014) Understanding Vision: theory, models, and data , published by Oxford Unviersity Press, 2014

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