{"id":15,"date":"2009-12-10T20:32:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T18:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teleranek.org\/?p=15"},"modified":"2026-07-04T23:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:01:21","slug":"neuron-simulation-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.teleranek.org\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Neuron simulation experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so I&#8217;ve decided to make simple flash simulations of biological neuron behaviour ( <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neuron_model\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neuron_model<\/a> ).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to bore you with neuron model theory, if you are here, you probably know what&#8217;s this. And if you don&#8217;t, you probably don&#8217;t want to know : )<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve made 3 experiments. All of them are based on real-life sodium &#8211; potassium Hodgkin-Huxley model.<br \/>\nFirst one is a 2d plot of current flow. The blue line is the input current, red and green ones are the neuron&#8217;s answer to the input current. Green is gating variable, red &#8211; neuron&#8217;s voltage.<br \/>\nIt shows, how the current propagate in neurons connected into some kind of chain.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"neuro0\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/exp.teleranek.org\/neuro_stuff\/biological\/neuronTest.swf\" \/><!--[if !IE]> <--><br \/>\n<object data=\"https:\/\/exp.teleranek.org\/neuro_stuff\/biological\/neuronTest.swf\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"neuro0\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<!--> <![endif]--><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Drag the blue line to modify the input current. The sound, is the neuron&#8217;s response converted to waveform.<br \/>\nHere is the source: <a href=\"https:\/\/exp.teleranek.org\/neuro_stuff\/biological\/neuronTest.as\">https:\/\/exp.teleranek.org\/neuro_stuff\/biological\/neuronTest.as<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second experiment, is the 3d simulation of the same equations<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"neuro2\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/exp.teleranek.org\/neuro_stuff\/biological\/neuronTest2.swf\" \/><!--[if !IE]> <--><br \/>\n<object data=\"https:\/\/exp.teleranek.org\/neuro_stuff\/biological\/neuronTest2.swf\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"neuro2\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<!--> <![endif]--><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Drag the stage to change camera position.<br \/>\nSource for this experiment:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/exp.teleranek.org\/neuro_stuff\/biological\/neuronTest2.as\">https:\/\/exp.teleranek.org\/neuro_stuff\/biological\/neuronTest2.as<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The third experiment pictures Hodgkin-Huxley&#8217;s model bifurcations from sample vector field. It&#8217;s shown as particles propagating thourgh the vector field. Click and hold the left mouse button to shoot the particles.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"phase\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/exp.teleranek.org\/neuro_stuff\/biological\/phaseTest.swf\" \/><!--[if !IE]> <--><br \/>\n<object data=\"https:\/\/exp.teleranek.org\/neuro_stuff\/biological\/phaseTest.swf\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"phase\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<!--> <![endif]--><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Source for this experiment:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/exp.teleranek.org\/neuro_stuff\/biological\/phaseTest.as\">https:\/\/exp.teleranek.org\/neuro_stuff\/biological\/phaseTest.as<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so I&#8217;ve decided to make simple flash simulations of biological neuron behaviour ( http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neuron_model ). I don&#8217;t want to bore you with neuron model theory, if you are here, you probably know what&#8217;s this. And if you don&#8217;t, you probably don&#8217;t want to know : ) I&#8217;ve made 3 experiments. All of them are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,50,51,43,47,52,53],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash-experiments","tag-as3","tag-experiments","tag-hodgkin-huxley","tag-neuron-model","tag-neuroscience","tag-sodium-potassium","tag-spiking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teleranek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teleranek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teleranek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teleranek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teleranek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teleranek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teleranek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teleranek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teleranek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teleranek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}