The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
And the fact that this thing in your inner ear that we call the cochlea is coiled, is actually really important to understand because along its length, it varies in how rigid or flexible it is, I already mentioned that before and at the base, it's very rigid and that's where the hair cells, if they move, will make high-frequency sounds, and at the top, what's called the apex, it's very flexible and it's more like a bass drum.
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So the cochlea is a coiled organ. Cochlea even means snail in Greek. So now if you uncoil it, then it's a tube, and high frequencies are encoded at the base, close to the middle ear and low frequencies, far away at the apex.