PSYCH 119IIntegration of Face and Brain
Psychology · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Faces play major role in social interactions in both humans and nonhuman primates and in other animals as well. Exploration of neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, and neurofunctional underpinnings of face processing (attractiveness, emotional expressions, facial skin, identity recognition, based on empirical studies that use behavioral responses in neuroimaging techniques, in effects of types of brain damage, in physiological responses, and in psychopathological states. Discussion of evolutionary approaches to faces, as well as relationship between specific genetic mutations affecting both brain and facial appearance.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
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Requisite: course 115 or M117C.
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PSYCH 119I
- PSYCH 115Principles of Behavioral Neuroscience
- PSYCH 100APsychological Statistics
- PSYCH 10Introductory Psychology
- COMPTNG 10AIntroduction to Programming
- STATS 10Introduction to Statistical Reasoning
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
- LIFESCI 15Life: Concepts and Issues
- PSYCH M117CNeuroscience: From Molecules to Mind—Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience
- PSYCH M117ANeuroscience: From Molecules to Mind—Cellular and Systems Neuroscience
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields4 more beneath
- PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)6 more beneath
- PHYSICS 5CPhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Electricity, Magnetism, and Modern Physics1 more beneath
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