Abstract
The effect of noise frequency on the FitzHugh—Nagumo neuron is investigated by the use of the harmonic velocity noise, which has a direct frequency parameter and no zero frequency part of the power spectrum. It is shown that the neuron has the resonance characteristic strongly responding to the noise with a certain frequency at fixed power, and there is double coherence resonance related to the frequency and the intensity. If the harmonic velocity noise lacks low frequency ingredients, there is no synchronization between the frequency of the neuron and that of the noise. Thus the low frequency part of the noise plays an important role in creating the synchronization.