Language Circle 2023 Lecture series on the brain and more, virtual and in-person at the MPI CBS in LeipzigRecordings from the Language Circle 2023 can be found on Youtube. Jonathan R. Brennan (University of Michigan) Linking neural systems to syntax using LLMs parsing models Anne Keitel (University of Stirling) Cortical tracking of speech and its relationship with intrinsic brain rhythms Christian Keitel (University of Dundee) Physiological influences on brain state changes and their consequences for subjective perception and performance Nai Ding (Zhejiang University) Neural encoding of connected speech: from syllables to phrases Keith Doelling (Hearing Institute) Oscillations as hard-coded rhythmic priors and prediction errors in time Marina Kalashnikova (BCBL) Infant-Directed Speech: An Optimal Signal for Language Processing in Young Infants Benedikt Zoefel (CNRS) The causal role of brain rhythms in speech processing, inferred from acoustic and electric entrainment Sanne ten Oever (Maastricht University) A mechanistic role for oscillations in temporal and content predictions: interactions between the when and what Katrien Segaert (University of Birmingham) Language in the ageing brain Ali Mazaheri (University of Birmingham) Deciphering Dementia’s Onset: EEG Indicators in Language Processing among MCI Patients Ayelet Landau (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Attentional Sampling: Temporal Structures in Brain and Cognition Oded Ghitza (Hearing Research Center) Oscillators as cortical pacemaker: open questions Johanna Rimmele (MPI for Empirical Aesthetics) Individual differences in auditory-motor interactions shape speech processing