title: Selective communication and information processing by excitable systems.
abstract: The phenomena of selective response of an excitable system to external pulse stimulation relating to interneuron communication and information processing problems are discussed. Subthreshold dynamics of the FitzHugh-Nagumo-like excitable system modeling of a neuron with the synaptic input is investigated. It is shown that the system response on various incoming information messages can be described by one- and two-dimensional linear and nonlinear point maps. Nonlinear integrating and resonant properties of the system are analyzed.
authors.affiliation: Radiophysical Department, Nizhny Novgorod State University, 23 Gagarin Avenue, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
authors.forename: V B
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Kazantsev