Coherent response of the Hodgkin-Huxley neuron in the high-input regime

  • Authors:
  • Alessandro Torcini;Stefano Luccioli;Thomas Kreuz

  • Affiliations:
  • Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi - CNR, via Madonna del Piano 10, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy and INFN Sezione di Firenze, via Sansone, 1 - I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy;Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi - CNR, via Madonna del Piano 10, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy and INFN Sezione di Firenze, via Sansone, 1 - I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy;Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi - CNR, via Madonna del Piano 10, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Neurocomputing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We analyze the response of the Hodgkin-Huxley neuron to a large number of uncorrelated stochastic inhibitory and excitatory post-synaptic spike trains. In order to clarify the various mechanisms responsible for noise-induced spike triggering we examine the model in its silent regime. We report the coexistence of two distinct coherence resonances: the first one at low noise is due to the stimulation of correlated subthreshold oscillations; the second one at intermediate noise variances is instead related to the regularization of the emitted spike trains.