
Dr. rer. nat. Vera Eymann
RESEARCH SCIENTIST
| Phone | + 49 (0)631 / 205 4612 |
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| mailto: vera.eymann(at)rptu.de | |
| Building | 57, Room 529 |
Curriculum Vitae
| 2024 - present | Postdoctoral researcher, RPTU Kaiserslautern - Landau (Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive and Developmental Psychology) |
2020 - 2024 | Research scientist, RPTU Kaiserslautern - Landau (Cognitive Neuroscience) |
2017 - 2019 | M.Sc. Cognitive Science, TU Kaiserslautern |
2013 - 2017 | B.Sc. Psychology, University of Mannheim |
2007 - 2012 | Dipl. (FH) Social Work and Education, University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen/Rhein |
Areas of Interest
- Neuroimaging
- Creativity
- Divergent and convergent thinking
- Scientific Creativity
- Intelligence
- Problem-solving
- AI and Creativity
Publications
Eymann, V., Lachmann, T., Hekele, F., Ashok, A., Berns, K., & Czernochowski, D. (2025). Does ChatGPT know what robots are thinking? Evaluation of human-created vs. AI-generated scientific ideas. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE ’25) (Article 41, pp. 1–5). Association for Computing Machinery. Download here
Eymann, V., Lachmann, T., & Czernochowski, D. (2025). When ChatGPT writes your research proposal: Scientific Creativity in the age of Generative AI. Journal of Intelligence, 13(5), 55. Download here
Jubran, O. F., Wolkersdorfer, M. P., Eymann, V., Burkard, N., Czernochowski, D., Herrlich, M., Van Leeuwen, C. & Lachmann, T. (2025). Spatiotemporal survival analysis for movement trajectory tracking in virtual reality. Scientific Reports, 15, 7313. Download here
Eymann, V., Beck, A., Lachmann, T., Jaarsveld, S., & Czernochowski, D. (2024). Reconsidering divergent and convergent thinking in creativity – A neurophysiological index for the convergence-divergence continuum. Creativity Research Journal, 1–8. Download here
Eymann, V., Lachmann, T., Beck, A., & Czernochowski, D. (2024). EEG oscillatory evidence for the temporal dynamics of divergent and convergent thinking in the verbal knowledge domain. Intelligence, 104, 101828. Download here
Eymann, V.*, Beck, A.-K.*, Jaarsvel, S., Lachmann, T., & Czernochowski, D. (2022). Alpha oscillatory evidence for shared underlying mechanisms of creativity and fluid intelligence above and beyond working memory-related activity. Intelligence, 91. Download here
Talks
Eymann, V., Lachmann, T., & Czernochowski, D. (2025): Can ChatGPT design a psychological experiment? Scientific creativity in humans and generative AI. 57th Herbsttreffen der experimentellen Kognitionspsychologie (HExKoP), Trier, Germany.
Eymann, V., Lachmann, T., & Czernochowski, D. (2025): Generative AI vs. Creative Brains: AI could beat us in Art… but also in Science? 10th Meeting of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (SfNC), Paris (France).
Eymann, V., Lachmann, T., & Czernochowski, D. (2025): Investigating the Role of Creativity in Science. Brain Days Heidelberg, Heidelberg University (Germany).Eymann, V., Czernochowski,
D., Beck, A., Jaarsveld, S., & Lachmann, T. (2024): Reconsidering divergent and convergent thinking? Evidence for the convergence-divergence continuum. Virtual BlitzTalk, 9th Meeting of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (SfNC), Toronto, Canada.
Eymann, V., Czernochowski, D., Beck, A.-K., & Lachmann, T. (2023): Divergent but not convergent verbal processing is indicated by upper alpha synchronization beyond working memory. TeaP (65. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen), Trier, Germany.
Jubran, O., Eymann, V., Burkard, N., Czernochowski, D., Herrlich, M., & Lachmann, T (2023): Hand movement trajectories as an indicator of cognitive activity in VR. TeaP (65. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen), Trier, Germany.
Eymann, V., Beck, A.-K., Jaarsveld, S., Lachmann, T., & Czernochowski, D. (2022): Neural correlates of divergent and convergent problem-solving indicate common mechanisms beyond shared working memory-related activity. TeaP (64. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen), Köln, Germany.
Eymann, V., Jubran, O., Burkard, N., Spilski, J., Herrlich, M. Lachmann, T., and Czernochowski, D. (2021): Quantifying cognitive load by combining eye tracking and EEG in a virtual reality environment. TeaP (63. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen), 2021, Ulm, Germany.
Jubran, O., Eymann, V., Burkard, N., Spilski, J., Herrlich, M., Czernochowski, D., and Lachmann, T. (2021): Expanding on behavioral data collection in an adapted n-back task for virtual reality. TeaP (63. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen), 2021, Ulm, Germany.
Posters
Czernochowski, D., Lachmann, T., & Eymann, V. (2025): Generative AI vs. Creative Brains: AI could beat us in Art… but also in Science? Poster, 10th Meeting of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (SfNC), Paris (France).
Eymann, V., Lachmann, T., & Czernochowski, D. (2025): Are YOU going to Change the World? Predicting Scientific Creativity in young Scientists. Poster, 67. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Frankfurt/Main (Germany).
Ebrahimi, Z., Eymann, V., Bergström, K., Lachmann, T., Czernochowski, D., & Jaarsveld, S. (2023). Exploring the Interplay between Working Memory, Intelligence, and Creativity. Fechner Day, 39th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Assisi, Italien.
Eymann, V., Lachmann, T., Beck, A.-K., & Czernochowski, D. (2023): Upper alpha band modulations during divergent and convergent problem-solving: The influence of verbal vs. figural-spatial knowledge domain. 48. Jahrestagung Psychologie und Gehirn, Tübingen, Germany.
Eymann, V., Beck, A.-K., Jaarsveld, S., Lachmann, T., & Czernochowski, D. (2022): Upper alpha oscillatory activity reflects sub processes of creating, but not solving geometric matrices. Forum of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS Forum 2022), Paris, France.
Eymann, V., Beck, A.-K., Jaarsveld, S., Lachmann, T., & Czernochowski, D. (2022): Higher fronto-parietal upper alpha synchronization in divergent as compared to convergent thinking beyond the impact of working memory. 47. Jahrestagung Psychologie und Gehirn, Freiburg, Germany.
Eymann, V., Lachmann, T., & Czernochowski, D. (2022): Comparison of methods regarding neurophysiological and advanced behavioral analysis for a divergent thinking task. TeaP (64. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen), Köln, Germany.
Eymann, V., Czernochowski, D., Jaarsveld, S., and Lachmann, T. (2020): Neural correlates of (un-) creativity - Time-related neural responses during the Alternate Uses Task. 2nd GK Graduate Symposium on Cognitive Science. Frankenstein, Germany.
Chidambaram, R., Eymann, V., Kampffmeyer, M., Liang, X., and Lachmann, T. (2018): Generalization abilities of prevalent deep generative models and the human brain: A psychophysics perspective. 34th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Fechner Day 2018, Lüneburg, Germany.