PSYCH 124ALanguage as Cognitive Science
Psychology · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Designed for junior/senior Cognitive Science majors. What mental mechanisms allow humans to transfer thoughts across minds through language? Through discussions and experiments, evaluation of behavioral, modeling, and neuroscientific data elucidating component processes of language system and its place within architecture of mind.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 100A, 100B, one programming course.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
needs reviewconfidence 0.70 · from text- PSYCH 100A
- PSYCH 100B
- one programming course
- · could not read "one programming course" (no course number found)
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
PSYCH 124A
- PSYCH 100APsychological Statistics
- PSYCH 10Introductory Psychology
- COMPTNG 10AIntroduction to Programming
- STATS 10Introduction to Statistical Reasoning
- PSYCH 100BResearch Methods in Psychology
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 6 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.