Figure 1
(a) Position of a driven hair bundle (top) and spontaneously oscillating hair bundle (bottom). The positive direction corresponds to the direction of channel opening. Red and black traces correspond to the stimulus waveform and the hair bundle response, respectively. The small red dots depict how the time intervals are calculated for the Poincaré maps. The schematic image of a hair cell (left) describes the bundle of stereovilli protruding from the cell body. The large red dot depicts the location of probe attachment to the hair bundle. (b) Reconstructed attractor of the hair cell system without stimulus, using delayed coordinates (τ = 20 ms).
