The purpose of this study was to further explore how song (a) familiarity, (b) enjoyment, (c) autobiographical salience, and (d) emotional arousal as well as a person’s (e) current mood state and (f) nostalgia proneness predicted music-evoked nostalgia. This study also measured the strength of the relationship between self-reports of arousal and electrodermal activity (EDA). Thirty people were recruited from a sample of university students using a multilevel model with repeated measures design. Procedures included listening to personalized playlists to elicit feelings of nostalgia while EDA collected changes in emotional arousal. Participants then answered questions about song familiarity, enjoyment, autobiographical salience, and arousal. Results indicated autobiographical salience was the best predictor of music-evoked nostalgia while holding all other variables constant. Mean skin conductance level ([Formula: see text]) did not correlate with self-reports of arousal. Therefore, this study supports the hypothesis that autobiographical salience predicted music-evoked nostalgia; however, this study did not support the hypothesis of a relationship between self-reports of arousal and EDA. Future research should continue to explore the influence of arousal on nostalgia.

Older adults must have the ability to walk at variable speeds/distances to meet community demands. This single group pre–post test study’s purposes were to examine if actual cadences after 7 weeks of rhythmic auditory stimulation gait training matched target cadences, improved walking distance, duration, velocity, maximum cadence, balance, enjoyment, and/or changed spatial/temporal gait parameters. Fourteen female adults (72.6 ± 4.4 years) participated in 14 sessions, while variable cadences were progressively introduced. Eleven older adult responders walked faster (3.8 steps/min) than one target cadence (−10% pace) while matching the target cadences for the other paces when walking with rhythmic auditory stimulation. Two nonresponders walked near their baseline cadence with little variability while one walked at faster cadences; all three did not appear to adjust to the beat of the music. After training, participants increased their walking distance, 90.8 ± 46.5 m; t(1, 13) = −7.3; p ≤ .005, velocity, 0.36 ± 0.15 m/s; t(1, 40) = −15.4; p < .001, and maximum cadence, 20.6 ± 9.1 steps/min; t(1, 40) = −14.6; p < .001; changes exceeded minimal clinically important differences. Twelve of 14 expressed enjoyment. Walk with rhythmic auditory stimulation training is a promising activity for older adults, which may translate to an individual’s ability to adapt walking speeds to various community demands.

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