Valentin Ivanov Vulchanov

Valentin Ivanov Vulchanov is a Researcher at the Department of Language and Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). His research focuses on language development, autism spectrum disorders, bilingualism, and gesture-language interaction. He has collaborated with institutions globally, contributing to over 50 peer-reviewed publications since 2000.

Key research themes include figurative language processing in ASD, statistical learning mechanisms in children, and cross-linguistic spatial communication systems. His work bridges cognitive linguistics, neuropsychology, and developmental psycholinguistics, with notable contributions to understanding sensory and motor correlates of language acquisition.

Recent studies highlight spatial language deficits in autism, gesture's role in early communication, and bilingualism effects on deictic systems. Vulchanov has co-edited volumes on native speaker variability and served on editorial boards for journals like Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science.

His research has been supported by grants exploring language disorders in multilingual contexts and neurocognitive foundations of metaphor comprehension. Collaborations include projects with the University of Oslo, University of Edinburgh, and institutions in Bulgaria and Spain.