Pretend play is a form of playful behavior that involves nonliteral action. Although on the surface this activity appears to be merely for fun, recent research has discovered that children's pretend play has connections to important cognitive and social skills, such as symbolic thinking, theory of mind, and counterfactual reasoning. The current article first defines pretend play and then review...

"I have looked around for conclusive evidence to show that the people who go swimming, riding or climbing or playing football and so on, are in fact in some way a healthier part of the population, less liable to disease, more long lived." (Geiringer, 1971.).

Der vorliegende Band versammelt Ergebnisse eines vom SNF unterstützten, multidisziplinären Forschungsprojekts zu Korrosion im Innern von historischen Blechblasinstrumenten und ergänzt sie mit weiteren Beiträgen zum Thema der Konservierung insbesondere Museumsbetrieb. Musikwissenschaftliche organologische Fragestellungen treffen dabei auf chemische physikalische Analysen, die wiederum Hinblick i...