In this work we study the dynamics of a 3-dimensional conductance-based model of a single thalamocortical (TC) neuron in response to sensorimotor signals. In particular, we focus on the entrainment of the system to a periodic excitatory signal that alternates between ‘on’ and ‘off’ states lasting for time T1 and T2, respectively. By exploiting invariant sets of the system and their associated invariant fiber bundles that foliate the phase space, we reduce the dynamics to the composition of two 2-dimensional maps, with the two components of one of the maps being simply a uniform shift and a uniform decay. With this reduction in computational complexity, we are able to analyze the model’s response to the excitatory signal while varying T1 and T2 systematically. We find that for fixed T2 but different T1 there exist and in some cases co-exist entrained periodic oscillations with different number of spikes (see Figure Figure11 for the case with T2 = 60 milliseconds). For relatively large T2 (above 55 milliseconds) it is also possible that the model responds to the excitatory signal with delayed spikes. Furthermore, we find that the size of the T1 intervals that allow coexistence of different types of entrained oscillations becomes larger as T2 increases. Figure 1 The top panel shows the T1 intervals (with T2 = 60 milliseconds) for the existence of different families of entrained periodic oscillations (green for sub-threshold oscillations, red for 1-spike oscillations, dark blue for 2-spike oscillations, and light ...