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As modern technology is becoming an inevitable aspect in our society, noise and its impact on humans is now a real issue in cities and transportation. Moreover, with the increasing development of computer-human interfaces, new functionalities are daily added to audio communication systems. These two issues deal with both “sounds” and “humans” and cannot be answered on the sole basis of acoustics and signal processing. Understanding associated human factors and the way to evaluate them, and more specifically hearing and related evaluation procedures is thus mandatory for those issues. Here, we propose an introductory course on psychoacoustic. The main objectives are to provide a general understanding of the human hearing process, and of the ways to perceptually evaluate some of its aspects.