text: During infancy, a child starts making sense of her internal 
  experiences through the information she gets from the external 
  world, most notably from caregivers whose behavior has a fun- 
  damental regulatory function shaping emotional development, 
  stress physiology, and refinement of limbic circuitry (Gee 2016). 
  In addition to the quality of caregivers’ response to the infant’s 
  need for proximity, its “predictability” supports the development 
  of emotions’ regulatory capacity (Gee and Cohodes 2021; Wu and 
  Feng 2020) and a cohesive sense of self (Arciero and Bondolfi 
  2009), increases prosociality (Deneault et al. 2023), and influ- 
  ences the development of social brain structure (see Ilyka et al. 
  2021 for a review). Self-report assessment of exposure to unpre- 
  dictability during early life appears to predict symptoms of anx- 
  iety, depression, and anhedonia in adulthood (Glynn et al. 2019). 
  Evidence from cross-species studies indicates that the predictabil- 
  ity of caregivers’ behavior in rodents may specifically influence 
  the offspring’s development of corticolimbic circuitry involved in 
  emotion-related functioning (Glynn and Baram 2019). Rodents 
  exposed to unpredictable maternal care exhibit atypical amygdala 
  functioning (Malter Cohen et al. 2013) and weaker connectivity 
  with the medial prefrontal cortex (Guadagno et al. 2018). 