Deterministic nonlinearity has been observed in experimental electrophysiological recordings performed in several areas of the brain. However, little is known about the ability to transmit a complex temporally organized activity through different types of spiking neurons. This study investigates the response of a spiking neuron model representing five archetypical types to input spike trains including deterministic information generated by a chaotic attractor. The comparison between input. and output spike trains is carried out by the pattern grouping algorithm (PGA) as a function of the intensity of the background activity for each neuronal type. The results show that the thalamo-cortical, regular spiking and intrinsically busting model neurons can be good candidate in transmitting temporal information with different characteristics in a spatially organized neural network.