Representational systems (NLP) Santa Cruz, California, on July 9, 1986, the [National Research Committee] influence subcommittee... was informed that PRS was no longer considered an important component of NLP. He said that NLP had been revised." (p. 140) The NLP developers, Robert Dilts et al. (1980) proposed that eye movement (and sometimes bodily gesture) correspond to accessing cues for representations systems, and connected it to specific sides in the brain. Representational systems (NLP) Representational systems (also known as sensory modalities and abbreviated to VAKOG or known as the 4-tuple) is a postulated model from neuro-linguistic programming, a pseudoscientific collection of models and methods
Representational systems (NLP) often considered jointly as one. For this reason, one often sees the term "VAK" in NLP reference texts, to signify these three primary representational systems, as well as the term "4-tuple" (or "VAKOG") if the author wishes to include all senses including taste/smell. The same term is also known as "First Access" (John Grinder), or "primary experience" (Freud). In documenting mental strategies and processing by the senses, NLP practitioners often use a simple shorthand for different modalities, with a letter indicating the representation system concerned, and often, a superscript to indicate how that system is being used. Three key aspects