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@misc{cogprints765, volume = {5}, number = {2}, title = {What changes in children's drawing procedures? Relational complexity as a constraint on representational redescription}, author = {S. Phillips and G. S. Halford and W. H. Wilson}, year = {1998}, pages = {33--42}, journal = {Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society}, 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}, url = {http://cogprints.org/765/}, 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.} }