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Excitable media show changes in their basic characteristics that reflect temporal changes in the environment. In the photosensitive Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction, excitability is decreased by illumination. We found that a traveling pulse failed to propagate when a certain level of light intensity was switched on abruptly, but the pulse continued propagating when the light intensity reached the same level gradually. We investigated the mechanism of adaptation of pulse propagation to the change in light intensity using two mathematical models, the Oregonator model (a specific model for the photosensitive BZ reaction), and the FitzHugh-Nagumo model (a generic model for excitable media). The appearance of a characteristic such as adaptation is shown to be a general feature for a traveling pulse in excitable media. © 2007 The American Physical Society

Survival versus collapse: Abrupt drop of excitability kills the traveling pulse, while gradual change results in adaptation