No association of COMT with insight problem solving in Chinese college students

Genes involved in dopamine (DA) neurotransmission, such as the catechol-O-methyltransferase gene (COMT), have been suggested as key genetic candidates that might underlie the genetic basis of insight. In a sample of Chinese college students, this study examined whether COMT was associated with indiv...

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Autores principales: Yang, Xiaolei, Zhang, Jinghuan, Zhang, Shun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2019
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Neuroscience
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6472467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31024766
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6755
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description Genes involved in dopamine (DA) neurotransmission, such as the catechol-O-methyltransferase gene (COMT), have been suggested as key genetic candidates that might underlie the genetic basis of insight. In a sample of Chinese college students, this study examined whether COMT was associated with individual differences in the ability to solve classic insight problems. The results demonstrated that COMT was not associated with insight problem solving and there was no gender-dependent effect. This study, together with previous studies, raises the possibility of a complex relationship between COMT and insight problem solving.
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spelling pubmed-64724672019-04-25 No association of COMT with insight problem solving in Chinese college students Yang, Xiaolei Zhang, Jinghuan Zhang, Shun PeerJ Neuroscience Genes involved in dopamine (DA) neurotransmission, such as the catechol-O-methyltransferase gene (COMT), have been suggested as key genetic candidates that might underlie the genetic basis of insight. In a sample of Chinese college students, this study examined whether COMT was associated with individual differences in the ability to solve classic insight problems. The results demonstrated that COMT was not associated with insight problem solving and there was no gender-dependent effect. This study, together with previous studies, raises the possibility of a complex relationship between COMT and insight problem solving. PeerJ Inc. 2019-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6472467/ /pubmed/31024766 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6755 Text en ©2019 Yang et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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No association of COMT with insight problem solving in Chinese college students
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title_full No association of COMT with insight problem solving in Chinese college students
title_fullStr No association of COMT with insight problem solving in Chinese college students
title_full_unstemmed No association of COMT with insight problem solving in Chinese college students
title_short No association of COMT with insight problem solving in Chinese college students
title_sort no association of comt with insight problem solving in chinese college students
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6472467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31024766
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6755
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