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human
Is your peripheral vision more geared toward perceiving movement when compared to your central vision? What other things is your peripheral vision better/worse at perceiving than your central vision?
gpt
when you're completely dark-adapted, your foveas are blind and you see only with the peripheral retina (though that's a generous definition of 'peripheral'), so that is one big specialty of the periphery.

aside from that, basically what you mentioned: peripheral vision is more sensitive to motion, and you can also think of it as more sensitive to large shapes. both of those have to do with the fact that receptive fields of peripheral neurons tend to be larger and more sensitive.

despite what some might tell you, peripheral vision supports color perception just as well as foveal vision (with caveats), there's not a big difference there.

peripheral vision is much worse at feature integration than foveal vision - you tend to over-integrate features, so you have trouble recognizing objects that require very precise integration (this is called "crowding"). best example of this is the fact that you can't read in the periphery, even when you can see the letters, unless the letters are big and widely spaced, and even then it's hard.