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A New Approach for Assessment of Mental Architecture: Repeated Tagging 1 ˜ 1 ¨ 1,2 Aire Raidvee *, Agne Polder , Juri Allik 1 Department of Psychology and Estonian Center of Behavioral and Health Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, 2 Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia Abstract A new approach to the study of a relatively neglected property of mental architecture—whether and when the already- processed elements are separated from the to-be-processed elements—is proposed. The process of numerical proportion discrimination between two sets of elements defined either by color or by orientation can be described as sampling with or without replacement (characterized by binomial or hypergeometric probability distributions respectively) depending on the possibility to tag an element once or repeatedly. All empirical psychometric functions were approximated by a theoretical model showing that the ability to keep track of the already tagged elements is not an inflexible part of the mental architecture but rather an individually variable strategy which also depends on conspicuity of perceptual attributes. Strong evidence is provided that in a considerable number of trials, observers tagged the same element repeatedly which can only be done serially at two separate time moments. ˜ Citation: Raidvee A, Polder A, Allik J (2012) A New Approach for Assessment of Mental Architecture: Repeated Tagging. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29667. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0029667 ´ Editor: Suliann Ben Hamed, CNRS - Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France Received June 16, 2011; Accepted December 2, 2011; Published January 9, 2012 Copyright: 2012 Raidvee et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the