PSYCH 186BCognitive Science Laboratory: Neural Networks
Psychology · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Designed for junior/senior departmental majors. Laboratory experience in neural network modeling of perception and cognition. Specific topics include essential neurophysiology, basic architectures, learning, and programming techniques. Principles illustrated and discussed in context of models of specific perceptual and cognitive processes. Simulations written in Pascal.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- 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
Requisites: courses 10, 85, 100A, 100B, Mathematics 31A, 31B, Program in Computing 10A, 10B.
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PSYCH 186B
- PSYCH 10Introductory Psychology
- PSYCH 85Introduction to Cognitive Science
- COMPTNG 10AIntroduction to Programming
- PSYCH 100APsychological Statistics
- STATS 10Introduction to Statistical Reasoning
- PSYCH 100BResearch Methods in Psychology
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
- MATH 1Precalculus
- COMPTNG 10BIntermediate Programming
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
8 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 16 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.