PSYCH 85Introduction to Cognitive Science
Psychology · 4 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Exploration of computer metaphor of mind as an information-processing system, focusing especially on perception, knowledge representation, and thought based on research in cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, and artificial intelligence. Many examples from visual information processing.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2026
- Summer 2026
- Fall 2026
- Winter 2027
- Spring 2027
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.
PSYCH 85
- PSYCH 186ACognitive Science Laboratory: Introduction to Theory and Simulation
- PSYCH 186BCognitive Science Laboratory: Neural Networks
- PSYCH 186CCognitive Science Laboratory: Psychophysical Theories and Methods
3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.