A map neuron with piezoelectric membrane, energy regulation and coherence resonance

Abstract

The cell membrane has a layered structure, which separates the intracellular and extracellular ions for developing gradient electromagnetic field, and its flexible property enables the capacitance dependence on the shape deformation due to external stimuli. Therefore, piezoelectric membrane can be suitable to describe the biophysical characteristic of cell membrane and equivalent circuit approach becomes important. In this paper, two capacitors are connected via a piezoelectric ceramic and two additive memristive channels are combined to mimic the neural activity response with exact energy description. Furthermore, linear transformation is applied to obtain an equivalent piezoelectric map neuron and energy function is provided to explore the adaptive energy regulation on mode selection in neural activities. Coherence resonance is detected and analyzed. The map neuron can also be considered as an auditory neuron for perceiving acoustic signals and its membrane property is considered from physical aspect.