Tracking real-time neural activation of conceptual knowledge using single-trial event-related potentials

▸ First study to apply the mixed-effects model to single-trial ERPs. ▸ Outlines a timecourse of semantic influences during single word reading. ▸ Multiple semantic variables modulate neural activity as early as lexical variables. ▸ Function and visual motion knowledge features particularly salient. ▸ Influences of imageability and semantic features are temporally dissociated.