creators_name: Phillips, S. creators_name: Halford, G. S. creators_name: Wilson, W. H. type: journalp datestamp: 1998-12-10 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:16 metadata_visibility: show title: What changes in children's drawing procedures? Relational complexity as a constraint on representational redescription ispublished: pub subjects: cog-psy subjects: comp-sci-complex-theory subjects: comp-sci-neural-nets subjects: dev-psy full_text_status: public keywords: representational redescription, association, relation, relational complexity, transitive inference, childrensdrawings, arity, cognitive load, ternary relations, feedforward network, recurrent network, tensor network, implicit representation, explicit representation abstract: 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. date: 1998 date_type: published publication: Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society volume: 5 number: 2 pagerange: 33-42 refereed: TRUE citation: Phillips, S. and Halford, G. S. and Wilson, W. H. (1998) What changes in children's drawing procedures? Relational complexity as a constraint on representational redescription. [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/765/2/complexity_of_drawings.ps