The paper which articulated V1BH clearly
Zhaoping, L. (2019) A new framework for understanding vision from the perspective of the primary visual cortex Current Opinion in Neurobiology, volume 58, page 1-10.
Some talks featuring V1BH as an important component
Vision as looking and seeing through a bottleneck: theory and experiments presentation on July 1st, 2026 at "Braitenberg 100: computational neuroscience, past, present, and future" symposium
"Looking and seeing in human vision in light of a severe attentional processing bottleneck in the brain" a seminar talk at Berkeley 2023
A new path to understanding vision from the perspective of the primary visual cortex , which is best viewed together with the original slides (here is another version (in Sep. 2018) of this lecture, it has a better video quality and is adapted to an audience of largely physicists/theorists at KITP UC Santa Barbara.)
visual illusions predicted by the bottleneck starting from V1
The reversed depth illusion, in 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,
The flip tilt illusion, in 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.
The V1BH was motivated by the V1 Saliency Hypothesis (V1SH, prounced as 'vish'), and has motivated the Central-Peripheral Dichotomy (CPD) theory . Together, V1SH, V1SH, and the CPD theory are components of the looking-and-seeing framework.
Zhaoping, L. (2026) Vision as looking and seeing through a bottleneck Current Opinions of Neurobiology, Vol 98, 103211,