Valentina Bambini
Valentina Bambini is Full Professor of Linguistics at the University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia, Italy. Her research interests revolve around the fields of neurolinguistics, experimental pragmatics, and neuropragmatics, with a focus on figurative language. Among her works, she has developed the Assessment of Pragmatic Abilities and Cognitive Substrates (APACS) test, a tool for evaluating pragmatic language disorder in clinical populations. Currently, she is the PI of an ERC Consolidator Grant entitled “PROcessing MEtaphors: Neurochronometry, Acquisition and DEcay” (PROMENADE), devoted to investigating the neurocognitive correlates of metaphor processing in the life span and in clinical populations. She co-founded the Experimental Pragmatics in Italy (XPRAG.it) research network.