Abstract
Excitable membranes respond irregularly to a periodic stimulation with proper stimulus parameters. Because irregular firing is macroscopic, it seems that irregularity is caused by other factors besides microscopic membrane noise. The responses of the repetitively firing Onchidium pacemaker neuron to a sinusoidal current stimulation were investigated. The irregular responses are classified into three kinds of chaotic oscillation: chaos, intermittency and random alternation. 1/2- and 1/1-harmonic responses bifurcate to chaos via intermittency and random alternation respectively. Harmonic and chaotic responses alternate with each other with increasing frequency of stimulation and with smaller amplitude. Nonlinear factors, threshold and refractory period, are concerned with hyperbolicity of chaotic responses.
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