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OCR: COCHLEA HE COCHLEA is the hearing organ of your inner ear and it sits deep within your skull. behind your eye. It is a fluid- -filled tube that is coiled like a snail's shell. The fluid in the cochlea recei ives sound vibrations from the middle ear A s the fluid vibrates, it causes the tiny hairs that line the cochlea to move The mov vement of these hairs creates nerve impulses. which travel to the hearing centres of the brain. In the brain sense Is made of the vibrations and the sounds that cause them vour receives movemen