PSYCH 124KEthical, Legal, and Societal Implications of Cognitive Neuroscience
Psychology · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Designed for juniors/seniors. Critical examination of current and potential use of neuroimaging data in legal system as means to assess memories, truthfulness, culpability, and probability of future criminal behavior. Consideration of personal and societal consequences of use of cognitively enhancing drugs, memory dampening techniques, brain stimulation, and neural prostheses. Students debate range of current topics.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 120A or 120B.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
PSYCH 124K
- PSYCH 120ACognitive Psychology
- PSYCH 10Introductory Psychology
- PSYCH 100APsychological Statistics
- COMPTNG 10AIntroduction to Programming
- STATS 10Introduction to Statistical Reasoning
- PSYCH 120BSensation and Perception
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 9 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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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.