Direct gaze captures visuospatial attention

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How do eye gaze and facial expression interact? (2008, background): “For example, Senju and Hasegawa (2005) showed that the detection of a peripheral target is delayed when observers are first required to fixate a central face that is looking directly at them, compared to faces with averted or closed eyes.”
The eye contact effect: mechanisms and development. (2009, unknown): “Direct gaze also holds attention [ 18 ]: the detection of peripheral targets becomes slower when participants fixate on a face with direct gaze than that with averted gaze.”
Gaze Cueing of Attention (2007, background): “Inhibition at the cued location was observed in all periph- 2 Senju and Hasegawa (2005) have demonstrated that the gap effect does interact with the attentional impact of the observation of direct gaze.”
Neural bases of eye and gaze processing: the core of social cognition. (2009, unknown): “When the gaze of the face is direct, longer reaction times for target detection have been reported (Senju and Hasegawa, 2005), which are even longer than when gaze is directed to the opposite direction as the target (Vuilleumier, 2002).”