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For Hartley, complex and decomplex ideas are wholes that do not

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As a person becomes proficient at a type of decomplex action, the guiding sensory modality can change.

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Hartley's account draws particular attention to the dependency of our capacities for intentionality, flexibility, and innovation in our decomplex actions upon the repertoires of actions we have made secondarily automatic.

David Hartley Allen, Richard 2009

In playing a piano, hitting the D key at the sight of the printed note D is a complex movement, while playing a composition is a decomplex action.

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Such decomplex actions are central to the lives we lead.

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When they do so, the actions they perform are what Hartley calls “decomplex.”

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Then, as we grow, we gain voluntary control over some of our movements, perfect those that become secondarily automatic, and learn to carry out decomplex actions that draw on repertoires of secondarily automatic components.

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In Hartley's theory, the associations in a complex action or idea are synchronic, while the associations in a decomplex action or idea are diachronic.

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Nonetheless, we lack a widely available word for the concept that “decomplex” names.

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For Hartley, language is a highly “decomplex” motor activity that involves the cementing of associations between perceived and created sounds, and, for the literate, perceived and created marks:

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