Subsequent to Rosch's work, prototype effects have been investigated widely in areas such as colour cognition (Brent Berlin and Paul Kay, 1969), and also for more abstract notions.
在 Rosch 的研究之後，後續的原型效應在其他領域廣泛的被研究，如色彩認知(Brent Berlin 與 Paul Kay, 1969)，或其他抽象概念。