Representational Systems

The five sensory modalities through which human beings represent, store, and process experience: Visual (sight), Auditory (hearing), Kinesthetic (feeling), Olfactory (smell), and Gustatory (taste). In NLP, these are abbreviated as VAKOG. Each person has a preferred or primary representational system that they rely on most heavily, and a lead system that they use to access stored information. Identifying and matching a person's representational system is key to effective communication.