PSYCH 236AAdvanced Neuroimaging Methods for Social and Affective Neuroscience
Psychology · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Focus on the application of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) methods to investigate the neural basis of social and affective phenomena. Methods include representational similarity analysis, decoding mental states from fMRI data, and intersubject neural synchrony. Covered techniques also be applied to data from other neuroimaging modalities (e.g., electroencephalogram, magnetoencephalography, functional near-infrared spectroscopy). May be repeated for credit.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
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