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The epistemological problem for automata.
MacKay, D. M. (1955)
In C. E.Shannon, & J. McCarthy (Ed.), Automata Studies (pp. 235-250). Princeton: Princeton University Press.

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Probably the first theory for why feedback might be important to perceptual/cognitive processes, e.g.later to become recognized in theories of cortical back-projections. Maybe too neglected to be considered "influential".

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