%A S. Phillips %A G. S. Halford %A W. H. Wilson %J Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society %T What changes in children's drawing procedures? Relational complexity as a constraint on representational redescription %X 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. %N 2 %K representational redescription, association, relation, relational complexity, transitive inference, childrensdrawings, arity, cognitive load, ternary relations, feedforward network, recurrent network, tensor network, implicit representation, explicit representation %P 33-42 %V 5 %D 1998 %L cogprints765