Vanja Kljajevic

Vanja Kljajevic is an Associate Professor at the Department of Special Education, University of Oslo. Her research focuses on neurolinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and clinical applications of language processing. She leads projects on figurative language comprehension and verbal memory decline in aging. Key areas include proverb interpretation in dementia diagnosis, aphasia rehabilitation via virtual reality, and neurodevelopmental disorders in children.

Research Projects:

• Comprehension of Figurative Language
• Verbal Memory Decline in Healthy Cognitive Aging

Key Contributions: Pioneering corpus-based methods for proverb analysis, developing VR tools for stroke rehabilitation, and investigating sex differences in verbal learning through population studies.

Awards: None listed.

Advising & Grants: No explicit student advising details provided. Active in interdisciplinary collaborations within the ComPros research group.

Labs/Teams: Member of the Communicative Processes (ComPros) research group at UiO, focusing on language and cognition interfaces.