Tamara Swaab, Professor of Psychology at UC Davis, and a member of the Center for Mind and Brain, discusses the future of research into understanding the cognitive neuroscience of human language. Her talk was presented in 2021 as a keynote address at an international workshop celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the founding of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in The Netherlands, and was titled: "What Will the Future Bring? Flexibility of prediction during language processing.