email: pealco@gmail.com
2007 – present
Ph.D. Student, Cognitive Neuroscience of Language
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
Advisor: Colin Phillips
In progress. Expected completion: 2012
2003 – 2007
B.A. Linguistics, magna cum laude
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Honors Thesis: Parallelism and Syntactic Priming
Advisor: Edith Kaan
2011
Agreement attraction in Spanish: Immediate vs. delayed sensitivity.
Sol Lago, Pedro Alcocer, and Colin Phillips. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford, CA: March 24–26.
2010
An MMF asymmetry in processing illicit onset consonant clusters.
Pedro Alcocer, Iris Berent, William J. Idsardi, and David Poeppel. Poster presented at the Second Annual Meeting of the Neurobiology of Language Conference, San Diego, CA: November 11–12.
Early neural responses show sensitivity to sonority differences in consonant clusters.
Pedro Alcocer and William Idsardi. Poster presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2010). Montreal, Canada: April 17–20.
Structure sensitive and insensitive retrieval of subjects in Brazilian Portuguese.
Pedro Alcocer, Colin Phillips, Aniela Improta França, and Marcus Maia. Talk presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY: March 18–20.
2009
MEG evidence for non-uniform perceptual sensitivity in vowel space.
Pedro Alcocer and Brian Dillon. Poster presented at the First Neurobiology of Language Conference, Chicago, IL: October 15–16.
Neural correlates of sonority sequencing constraint violations in word-initial consonant clusters using MEG.
Pedro Alcocer, Elizabeth Jensen, Sebila Kratovac, Anna Lukyanchenko, Susan Teubner-Rhodes, David Poeppel, and William J. Idsardi. Poster presented at the First Neurobiology of Language Conference, Chicago, IL: October 15–16.
A cross-language reversal in illusory agreement licensing.
Pedro Alcocer and Colin Phillips. Poster presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA: March 26–28.
Bound-variable dependencies reveal the structure-sensitivity of search.
Dave Kush, Akira Omaki, Brian Dillon, Pedro Alcocer and Colin Phillips. Poster presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA: March 26–28.
Auditory cortex sensitive to F1-F2 interaction: Evidence from MEG.
Pedro Alcocer and Brian Dillon. 16th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2009). San Francisco, CA: March 21–24.
2007
Semantic garden pathing: Subsets and new discourse referents.
Edith Kaan, Pedro Alcocer, Christopher Barkley, and Andrea Dallas. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, La Jolla, CA: March 29–31.
October 2010
Analysis and visualization with R.
Second Language Research Forum (SLRF 2010) Experimental Methods Workshop.
University of Maryland, College Park.
Fall 2010
LING 499D, Seminar in Neurolinguistics. Instructor. University of Maryland.
Spring 2010
LING 240, Introduction to Linguistics for Majors, TA for Peggy Antonisse. University of Maryland.
Summer 2009
Statistics with R. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Winter 2009
Statistics with R, with Brian Dillon and Bill Idsardi. University of Maryland.
A two-week intensive course on the R statistical programming language for IGERT students and faculty.
Fall 2008
LING 200, Introduction to Linguistics, TA for Peggy Antonisse. University of Maryland.
2005 – 2007
Research Assistant, Kaan Lab for Brain and Language, University of Florida
Supervisor: Edith Kaan
2010 – present
Member, IGERT Student Executive Committee
2010
Organizer, Second Annual IGERT Winter Storm workshop at the University of Maryland
2009 – present
Lead web developer and web coordinator, UMD Department of Linguistics
2009
Organizer, First Annual IGERT Winter Storm workshop at the University of Maryland
2009
Organizer, 17th Annual Mayfest Conference at the University of Maryland
2009 – 2011
NSF IGERT Fellowship
2008
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention
2007 – 2009
University of Maryland Fellowship
2006 – 2007
Ronald E. McNair Scholarship
2003 – 2007
Florida Bright Futures Scholarship
Full tuition for four years; merit-based.