Preferred Representational Systems or PRS was once one of the flag-ship elements of NLP; it states that for practical purposes, information is (or can be treated as if it is) processed through the senses. It goes on to state that each person has a preferred representational system; that some people process information and access memories through pictures (the visuals), others through sound (the auditory people) and yet others through their feelings (the kinaesthetics).
Sharpley carried out a meta survey of PRS research and wrote in 1987 that there is no evidence to support PRS theory. Ironically, this was a year after one of the NLP co-founders, Richard Bandler, at Santa Cruz, California, on July 9, 1986, when meeting with the [National Research Committee] influence subcommittee… stated that PRS was no longer considered an important component of NLP. Bandler openly stated that NLP had been revised. He then repeated this in an interview with the Enhancing Human Performance subcommittee. Ironically, this was 1 year before Sharpley’s studied was published!
Unfortunately, many NLP trainers and authors still teach and write about PRS.
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