In primates, faces naturally capture attention unless neurological differences are present.

“and for us as primates one thing that's super important and kind of really deeply baked in is uh other people so if there are our faces if there are people in the environment doing something then that naturally just grabs our attention unless we happen to be an individual who's sort of wired a little bit differently like folks on the autism spectrum disorder or you know schizophrenia things like that”