Figure 1.

A model based on Borg et al. (2011) and colleagues' view of how occupied or impaired cognitive resources can change how emotion affects memory encoding. If individuals' executive function resources are otherwise engaged or individuals' executive function is impaired, as in Alzheimer dementia, the model predicts greater likelihood of emotional memory decrement. Patients with intermediate executive function impairment, as in MCI or early AD, would be hypothesized to have relatively normal emotional memory enhancement.