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Two views of cochlear mechanics A.svg en The cochlea shown uncoiled is filled with liquid In the accepted travelling wave picture shown here the partition vibrates up and down like flicked rope and wave of displacement sweeps from base high frequencies to apex low frequencies Where the wave broadly peaks depends on frequency Own