The conclusion from prototype-distortion studies in amnesic patients is that category knowledge can be acquired in the absence of memory for study exemplars.
As the perceived success of the CBP ebbed and flowed with the decades in the views of other scholars, within the legal literature the project continually recurred as a case study exemplar of dysfunction in the legal system.
For half of the studied category-exemplar pairs, subjects practiced retrieval by completing word stems, followed by a delayed category-cued recall on all of the practiced and unpracticed items.
Although there was no change in clinical parameters (such as blood glucose or total cholesterol) after the 10-week intervention, the study was an exemplar demonstration for encouraging sedentary older adults with diabetes and/or hypertension to undertake physical activity.
Although semantic links can be defined in other ways (e.g., superordinate categories and their members), the use of exemplars is advantageous for the study of semantic effects, because exemplars share lexical representations (names), functional properties, and features.
Crucially, for the recognition group the category members used in the test were also used during the study period as category exemplars.
Finally, the current study includes exemplars from a wide range of natural categories (e.g., birds) with less-distinct boundaries and graded representations and a small number of well-defined categories (e.g., shapes, body parts, occupations) which tend to have more clear-cut, rigid boundaries in terms of category membership.
The methodology focussed on developing a process to identify functional road categories and designs based on endemic road characteristics taken from functional exemplars in the study area.
There were also two control groups who made either recognition or categorization decisions about the same sets of items but who saw no exemplars in the study period.
