The present study examined the relationship between word concreteness and word frequency using event-related potential (ERP) measurements during a lexical decision task. Potential evects of concreteness in the processing of verbs were also examined. ERPs were recorded from 119 scalp electrodes in 23 right-handed participants. The results showed that concrete nouns were associated with a more negative ERP than abstract nouns at 200-300 and 300-500ms after stimulus onset, regardless of word frequency. Between 300 and 500ms, concrete nouns and abstract nouns produced diVerentiated scalp distributions, respectively. In terms of verbs, concreteness only produced small diVerence in ERP primarily in the central-parietal sites of the left hemisphere.