Research Assistants




Victoria Gotcheva

Victoria Gotcheva is a Research Assistant at the BAM! Lab and is a third-year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto. She is enrolled in the linguistics specialist program and is working towards an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree. Victoria’s interest in speech and language development in bilingual and multilingual populations stems from her background speaking and learning many languages; Victoria was raised in an English-Bulgarian household, gained fluency in French through the French Immersion program, and received additional formal instruction in German and Russian. At the lab, Victoria is currently assisting with data management for the Wordle study and participant recruitment for the bilingual language history tool project. She is also on the team for the scoping review of community-based participatory research with bilingual populations. Previously, Victoria helped out with testing adult participants for a pupillometric study of attentional effort during linguistic and nonlinguistic processing in monolinguals and bilinguals and with extracting data for a narrative review on language and cognition in atypically-developing bilingual children. Beyond her academic pursuits, Victoria enjoys playing the piano and singing.