http://cogprints.org/765/
What changes in children's drawing procedures? Relational complexity as a constraint on representational redescription
Children's ability to modify their drawing procedures changes in their first decade. Young children make size/shape changes and end-of-sequence insertions/deletions of drawing elements. Older children also make middle-of-sequence insertions/deletions and position/orientation changes in drawing elements. Why do modifications occur in this order? We argue that older children's modifications require processing ternary relations, which according to a relational complexity theory, is beyond the working memory capacity of young children.
Phillips, S.
Halford, G. S.
Wilson, W. H.
Cognitive Psychology
Complexity Theory
Neural Nets
Developmental Psychology
S.
Phillips
G. S.
Halford
W. H.
Wilson