She found the opposite − Niki actually had the shorter voice onset time. That's not all. Broadhurst also compared how each twin spoke when talking with straight people versus gay people.

Broadhurst compared the twins' voice onset times to each other, hypothesizing that Niki, the gay twin, would have a longer voice onset time than Sammy, the straight twin.

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Duke neuroscientists Warren Meck and Catalin Buhusi call the middle mode "interval timing." "To understand speech, I not only have to process the millisecond intervals involved in voice onset time ...

Then they tested the birds' perception of speech sounds that varied in two cues: voice onset time and the frequency of the first formant (formants are resonating frequencies of the vocal tract).

Voice Onset Time (VOT): The interval between the release of a stop consonant and the onset of vocal fold vibration, serving as a key acoustic cue in voicing distinctions.

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