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D-Index
78
Citations
35960
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1728
National Ranking
42

Overview

John C. Eccles was affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their academic contributions include publications in book format, with a focus on musical works.

Eccles authored at least two books published by A-R Editions eBooks. These books are titled Incidental Music, Part 2 (2021) and Incidental Music, Part 3 (2023). Both books were released by the same publisher, contributing to the corpus of incidental music literature.

The scientist did not have recorded frequent co-authors or recurring publication venues listed. Similarly, there are no specified main fields, subfields, or main topics of study detailed for their research output. The absence of listed research papers suggests a focus primarily on book publications within their documented academic activity.

John C. Eccles is noted as deceased. No awards or recognitions are documented in the available data.

Best Publications

  • The self and its brain

    Karl R. Popper;John C. Eccles

  • The cerebellum as a neuronal machine

    John C. Eccles;Masao Ito;János Szentágothai

  • The emotional brain.

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  • Interactions between motoneurones and muscles in respect of the characteristic speeds of their responses.

    A. J. Buller;J. C. Eccles;Rosamond M. Eccles

  • The convergence of monosynaptic excitatory afferents on to many different species of alpha motoneurones

    J. C. Eccles;Rosamond M. Eccles;A. Lundberg

  • Reflex Activity of the Spinal Cord.

    R. S. Creed;D. Denny-brown;J. C. Eccles;E. G. T. Liddell

  • Brain and Conscious Experience

    John C. Eccles

  • The Neurophysiological Basis of Mind

    John Eccles

  • The action potentials of the alpha motoneurones supplying fast and slow muscles

    J. C. Eccles;Rosamond M. Eccles;A. Lundberg

  • Synaptic actions on motoneurones caused by impulses in Golgi tendon organ afferents.

    J. C. Eccles;Rosamond M. Eccles;A. Lundberg

  • Central inhibitory action attributable to presynaptic depolarization produced by muscle afferent volleys.

    J. C. Eccles;Rosamond M. Eccles;F. Magni

  • Numbers and Contraction-Values of Individual Motor-Units Examined in some Muscles of the Limb

    John Carew Eccles;Charles Scott Sherrington

  • The Self and Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism

    John C. Eccles;Karl Popper

  • The interpretation of spike potentials of motoneurones.

    J. S. Coombs;D. R. Curtis;J. C. Eccles

  • Prolongation of hippocampal inhibitory postsynaptic potentials by barbiturates.

    R. A. Nicoll;R. A. Nicoll;J. C. Eccles;T. Oshima;F. Rubia;F. Rubia

  • Quantum aspects of brain activity and the role of consciousness.

    Friedrich Beck;John C. Eccles

  • The understanding of the brain

    John C. Eccles

  • Inhibitory phasing of neuronal discharge.

    P. Andersen;John Eccles

  • The action of tetanus toxin on the inhibition of motoneurones.

    V. B. Brooks;D. R. Curtis;J. C. Eccles

  • The initiation of voluntary movements by the supplementary motor area.

    John C. Eccles

  • The Self and Its Brain.

    K. T. Maslin;Karl R. Popper;John C. Eccles

Frequent Co-Authors

Edith G. McGeer
Edith G. McGeer University of British Columbia
Masao Ito
Masao Ito RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Rodolfo R. Llinás
Rodolfo R. Llinás New York University
Per Andersen
Per Andersen University of Copenhagen
Robert F. Schmidt
Robert F. Schmidt University of Würzburg
Roger A. Nicoll
Roger A. Nicoll University of California, San Francisco
Piergiorgio Strata
Piergiorgio Strata University of Turin
David R. Curtis
David R. Curtis Australian National University
Stephen W. Kuffler
Stephen W. Kuffler Harvard University
Charles Scott Sherrington
Charles Scott Sherrington University of Liverpool

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