Figure 9

Cycle skipping, multi-cycle skipping and chaos time histories for the Swap only case. Firing activity of each competing population \(E_{1}\) (solid lines) and \(E_{2}\) (dashed lines) with low frequency periodic forcing; swap 1.5 Hz and different adaptation strength h. (A) Cycle skipping regime with \(h=1\). (B–E) Multi-cycle skipping regime with variable number of cycles to respond and skip between switches. (B) \(h=0.03\), (C) \(h=0.02\), (D) \(h=0.0185\), (E) \(h=0.017\). Chaotic firing activity of (F) \(E_{1}\) and (G) \(E_{2}\) with irregular number of cycles to respond or skip between switches, \(h=0.01663\). Other parameters: \(g=25\), \([J_{\mathrm{HL}}]_{\max }=[J_{\mathrm{VR}}]_{\max }=10\)