In cognitive development terms, recursion aids looking back, which aids children’s monitoring of what they comprehend, which helps them rehearse the details more in working memory, which helps them consolidate what they learn in long-term memory. If they are unconsciously processing information on the screen more like film, the plot’s details would appear more evanescent and less concrete. Quite literally, the sequencing of those details would blur in memory, just as they seemed to in Mangen’s older subjects and, most likely, in much younger children, too.
