title: What changes in children's drawing procedures? Relational complexity as a constraint on representational redescription creator: Phillips, S. creator: Halford, G. S. creator: Wilson, W. H. subject: Cognitive Psychology subject: Complexity Theory subject: Neural Nets subject: Developmental Psychology description: 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 type: Journal (Paginated) type: PeerReviewed format: application/postscript identifier: http://cogprints.org/765/2/complexity_of_drawings.ps identifier: 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)] relation: http://cogprints.org/765/