Before revision: We propose a metric - called Multi-Scale Relevance (MSR) - to score neurons for their prominence in encoding for the animal's behaviour that is being observed in a multi-electrode array recording experiment. The MSR assumes that relevant neurons exhibit a wide variability in their dynamical state, in response to the external stimulus, across different time scales.
After revision: We propose a metric - called Multi-Scale Relevance (MSR) -- to capture the dynamical variability of the activity of single neurons across different time scales.