Reference Request: Human visual system takes in $10^7$ bits/sec at the periphery and compresses it down to 50 bits/sec deep inside
How about this:
https://www.springerprofessional.de/data-compression-and-data-selection-in-human-vision/3218014

The original link in the Abstract referenced (https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-642-04954-5_7.pdf) above isn't available anymore, but I found a repository:

https://webdav.tuebingen.mpg.de/u/zli/prints/ZhaopingNReview2006.pdf

I don't think the review is peer reviewed, but maybe you find a reference in there (it's not my field, so I guess you know more on where to look ;-)

She's now in Germany:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Li_Zhaoping

If you don't find anything, maybe you can ask her on researchgate directly.