Neurologist Antonio Damasio, a professor at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, suggests in his book Descartes' Error that emotion is critical to effective thinking and decision making.

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His chapters on ten filmmakers of the 1970s are therefore not based on personal memories of the era nor evidently on scrupulous research designed to plug the gaps: the book is guilty of the occasional factual error.

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It is an unfortunate error that mars an otherwise enjoyable book.

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Mr Evans's excellent book is marred only by the occasional editing error (ORAF, the Organisation of the French Algerian Resistance, exists only as an acronym, and Mr Evans, when talking of the founding members of the European Economic Community, omits the Netherlands).

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