Abstract A study of Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) neuron under external sinusoidal excited stimulus is presented in this paper. As is well known, the stimulus frequency is to be considered as a bifurcate parameter, and numerous phenomena, such as synchronization, period, and chaos appear alternatively with the changing of the stimulus frequency. For the stimulus frequency less than 2fB (fB being the base frequency in this paper), the simulation results demonstrate that the single HH neuron could completely convey the sinusoidal signal in anti-phase into interspike interval (ISI) sequences. We also report, perhaps for the first time, another kind of phenomenon, the beat phenomenon, which exists in the phase dynamics of the ISI sequences of the HH neuron stimulated by a sinusoidal current. It is shown furthermore that intermittent transition results in the general route to chaos.
Received: 09 June 2003
Revised: 24 September 2003
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Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 30030040 and 10172067).
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Jin Wu-Yin (靳伍银), Xu Jian-Xue (徐健学), Wu Ying (吴莹), Hong Ling (洪灵) An alternating periodic-chaotic ISI sequence of HH neuron under external sinusoidal stimulus 2004 Chinese Physics 13 335
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