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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."
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date: 1998
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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'
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publication: 'Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society'
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  - cog-psy
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title: "What changes in children's drawing procedures? Relational complexity as a constraint on representational redescription"
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