With the proliferation of flashy shows for kids like "CoComelon," parents are opting out of today’s programming and are, instead, tuning into such low-tech and wholesome cartoons as the 1980s ...

The kids who watched narrative cartoons gave longer and detailed accounts while those who watched non-narrative ones had altered, shorter accounts.

Growing up in the ’90s and early 2000s, Cartoon Network was more than background noise-it was the rhythm of my childhood afternoons. Shows like Dexter’s Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, and Courage ...