PSYCH 205ENeural Basis of Reward and Value
Psychology · 2 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Five-week course. Lecture, three hours. Designed for graduate students. Overview of neural systems underlying reward and value. Emphasis on mechanisms of reinforcement learning and cost-benefit or value-based decision making. Readings drawn from primary literature in animal research.
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
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
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.