中国物理B ›› 2014, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (3): 30505-030505.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/23/3/030505

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Experimental identification of a comb-shaped chaotic region in multiple parameter spaces simulated by the Hindmarsh–Rose neuron model

贾冰   

  1. Center for Computational System Biology, School of Mathematical Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
  • 收稿日期:2013-06-22 修回日期:2013-08-30 出版日期:2014-03-15 发布日期:2014-03-15
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11072135).

Experimental identification of a comb-shaped chaotic region in multiple parameter spaces simulated by the Hindmarsh–Rose neuron model

Jia Bing (贾冰)   

  1. Center for Computational System Biology, School of Mathematical Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
  • Received:2013-06-22 Revised:2013-08-30 Online:2014-03-15 Published:2014-03-15
  • Contact: Jia Bing E-mail:jiabing427@163.com;jiabing427@gmail.com
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11072135).

摘要: A comb-shaped chaotic region has been simulated in multiple two-dimensional parameter spaces using the Hindmarsh–Rose (HR) neuron model in many recent studies, which can interpret almost all of the previously simulated bifurcation processes with chaos in neural firing patterns. In the present paper, a comb-shaped chaotic region in a two-dimensional parameter space was reproduced, which presented different processes of period-adding bifurcations with chaos with changing one parameter and fixed the other parameter at different levels. In the biological experiments, different period-adding bifurcation scenarios with chaos by decreasing the extra-cellular calcium concentration were observed from some neural pacemakers at different levels of extra-cellular 4-aminopyridine concentration and from other pacemakers at different levels of extra-cellular caesium concentration. By using the nonlinear time series analysis method, the deterministic dynamics of the experimental chaotic firings were investigated. The period-adding bifurcations with chaos observed in the experiments resembled those simulated in the comb-shaped chaotic region using the HR model. The experimental results show that period-adding bifurcations with chaos are preserved in different two-dimensional parameter spaces, which provides evidence of the existence of the comb-shaped chaotic region and a demonstration of the simulation results in different two-dimensional parameter spaces in the HR neuron model. The results also present relationships between different firing patterns in two-dimensional parameter spaces.

关键词: chaos, neural firing, bifurcation, Hindmarsh–, Rose model

Abstract: A comb-shaped chaotic region has been simulated in multiple two-dimensional parameter spaces using the Hindmarsh–Rose (HR) neuron model in many recent studies, which can interpret almost all of the previously simulated bifurcation processes with chaos in neural firing patterns. In the present paper, a comb-shaped chaotic region in a two-dimensional parameter space was reproduced, which presented different processes of period-adding bifurcations with chaos with changing one parameter and fixed the other parameter at different levels. In the biological experiments, different period-adding bifurcation scenarios with chaos by decreasing the extra-cellular calcium concentration were observed from some neural pacemakers at different levels of extra-cellular 4-aminopyridine concentration and from other pacemakers at different levels of extra-cellular caesium concentration. By using the nonlinear time series analysis method, the deterministic dynamics of the experimental chaotic firings were investigated. The period-adding bifurcations with chaos observed in the experiments resembled those simulated in the comb-shaped chaotic region using the HR model. The experimental results show that period-adding bifurcations with chaos are preserved in different two-dimensional parameter spaces, which provides evidence of the existence of the comb-shaped chaotic region and a demonstration of the simulation results in different two-dimensional parameter spaces in the HR neuron model. The results also present relationships between different firing patterns in two-dimensional parameter spaces.

Key words: chaos, neural firing, bifurcation, Hindmarsh–Rose model

中图分类号:  (Synchronization; coupled oscillators)

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