Before revision:  2) extended a widely used vote-based spike decoding scheme to a Vote-for-All (VFA) decoding layer to reduce the information loss in the spike decoding ;
After revision:  2) extended a widely used vote-based spike decoding scheme to a Vote-for-All (VFA) decoding layer as a replacement to the standard vote-based spike decoding scheme, to reduce the information loss in the spike decoding ;