Categorizing Sensory Reception in Four Modes: Support for Representational Systems

Abstract

The study explored the basic tenet of Neurolinguistic Programming theory, the senses through which people receive information. Visual, auditory-tonal, auditory-digital, and kinesthetic sense modalities were objectively categorized as separate modes for receiving information. The responses of 176 study participants in a film-questionnaire setting also indicated more preference for the use of auditory-tonal, auditory-digital, and kinesthetic sensory modes than the visual modality.