Automatic unconscious knowledge. - Tsushima, Sasaki, & Watanabe (2006) Automatic unconscious knowledge - Tsushima, Sasaki, & Watanabe (2006). Science, 314. Task-irrelevant sub-threshold coherent motion (irrelevant signals) led to a stronger disturbance in task performance than did supra-threshold motion (ineffective inhibitory control). With the sub-threshold motion, activity in the visual cortex (measured by fMRI), was higher, but activity in the lateral prefrontal cortex was lower, than with supra-threshold motion. These results Summary: Unconscious and unattended information can escape inhibitory control exerted by frontal areas and influence conscious processing of stimuli more powerfully than conscious stimuli. See also research on mirror neurons (automatic unconscious knowledge of the intent of others at the neuronal level)