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Why your peripheral vision spots motion first

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Your peripheral vision is absolutely garbage at reading text, but it is an elite motion detector. Evolved strictly to keep you from getting eaten by tigers, the edges of your vision process movement milliseconds faster than your direct focus. It's why you can instantly react to a falling glass out of the corner of your eye before you even know what dropped.

Why your peripheral vision spots motion first
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