Phys. Rev. E 64, 021913 (2001) [6 pages]

Stochastic resonance in a Hodgkin-Huxley neuron in the absence of external noise

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D. T. W. Chik¹, Yuqing Wang^1,2, and Z. D. Wang^1,3,*
¹Department of Physics, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China
²Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
³Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Received 11 December 2000; revised 18 April 2001; published 26 July 2001

We study numerically nonlinear responses of a periodically forced Hodgkin-Huxley neuron. The coherence of the system in the absence of external noise, namely, the “intrinsic stochastic resonance,” is evidenced by the multimodal aperiodic firing pattern, a bell-shaped curve in the signal-to-noise ratio, and the statistical features of the mean firing rate. The subthreshold intrinsic oscillations enhance the signal transduction in a manner different from that in models studied previously.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.64.021913

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevE.64.021913

PACS:

87.19.La, 87.10.+e, 05.45.Pq

^*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Email address: zwang@hkucc.hku.hk

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Phys. Rev. E 64, 021913 (2001) [6 pages]

Stochastic resonance in a Hodgkin-Huxley neuron in the absence of external noise