The career of metaphor hypothesis suggests that novel metaphors are understood through a search for shared features between the topic and vehicle, but with repeated exposure, the figurative meaning is understood directly as a new category is established. The categorization hypothesis argues that instead good or apt metaphors are understood through a categorization process, whether or not they are familiar. Only poor metaphors ever invoke a literal comparison. In Experiment 1, with aptness equated, we found that high familiarity speeded comprehension time over low-familiarity metaphors. In Experiment 2a, providing a literal prime failed to facilitate interpretation of low-familiarity metaphors, contrary to the career of metaphor hypothesis. In Experiment 2b, with familiarity equated, high- and low-aptness metaphors did not differ, contrary to the categorization hypothesis.

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隐喻理解中的熟悉度和适应性。

隐喻假设的职业表明，通过在主题和媒介之间寻找共同的特征，可以理解新颖的隐喻，但是通过反复接触，比喻的含义在建立新类别时直接被理解。分类假说认为，无论是好还是隐喻，无论是熟悉还是隐喻，都是通过分类过程来理解的。只有较差的隐喻才会调用文字比较。在实验1中，通过适当程度的匹配，我们发现，对陌生人的隐喻比对陌生人的理解速度更快。在实验2a中，与隐喻假设的职业相反，提供字面量素数并不能促进对不熟悉的隐喻的解释。在实验2b中，就熟悉程度而言，高适应性和低适应性隐喻没有不同，