The reviewers evaluated this paper both with respect to its usefulness from a neuroscience perspective, as well as with respect to its correctness and novelty from a machine learning perspective. After discussion, the consensus was that this method has potential to be of wide usability in neuroscience application, and that it represents a useful and clear extension of previously developed ML methods for this application. We congratulate the authors on the paper acceptance, and would ask them to modify the paper with respect to the constructive comments by the reviewers.