The Reflections series takes a look back on historical articles from The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America that have had a significant impact on the science and practice of acoustics.

1.
G. A.
Miller
and
P. E.
Nicely
, “
An analysis of perceptual confusions among some English consonants
,”
J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
27
,
338
352
(
1955
).
2.
G. A.
Miller
, “
The cognitive revolution: A historical perspective
,”
Trends Cogn. Sci.
7
,
141
144
(
2003
).
3.
C. E.
Shannon
, “
A mathematical theory of communication
,”
Bell Syst. Tech. J.
27
,
379
423
(
1948
).
4.
L. M.
Friesen
,
R. V.
Shannon
,
D.
Baskent
, and
X.
Wang
, “
Speech recognition in noise as a function of the number of spectral channels: Comparison of acoustic hearing and cochlear implants
,”
J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
110
,
1150
1163
(
2001
).
5.
M.
Mok
,
D.
Grayden
,
R. C.
Dowell
, and
D.
Lawrence
, “
Speech perception for adults who use hearing aids in conjunction with cochlear implants in opposite ears
,”
J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res.
49
,
338
351
(
2006
).
6.
I. D.
Raji
,
E. M.
Bender
,
A.
Paullada
,
E.
Denton
, and
A.
Hanna
, “
AI and the everything in the whole wide world benchmark
,” (
2021
).
7.
L. J.
Platt
,
G.
Andrews
, and
P. M.
Howie
, “
Dysarthria of adult cerebral palsy: II. Phonemic analysis of articulation errors
,”
J. Speech. Lang. Hear. Res.
23
,
41
55
(
1980
).
8.
A.
Cutler
,
A.
Weber
,
R.
Smits
, and
N.
Cooper
, “
Patterns of English phoneme confusions by native and non-native listeners
,”
J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
116
,
3668
3678
(
2004
).
9.
M. A.
Redford
and
R. L.
Diehl
, “
The relative perceptual distinctiveness of initial and final consonants in CVC syllables
,”
J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
106
,
1555
1565
(
1999
).
10.
G. E.
Peterson
and
H. L.
Barney
, “
Control methods used in a study of the vowels
,”
J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
24
,
175
184
(
1952
).
11.
Association for Psychological Science
, “
Remembering George A. Miller
,” September 26,
2012
, https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/remembering-george-a-miller (Last viewed December 14, 2023).
12.
R. N.
Shepard
, “
Toward a universal law of generalization for psychological science
,”
Science
237
,
1317
1323
(
1987
).
13.
L. L.
Holt
and
A. J.
Lotto
, “
Speech perception within an auditory cognitive science framework
,”
Curr. Dir. Psychol. Sci.
17
,
42
46
(
2008
).
14.
K. R.
Kluender
,
C. E.
Stilp
, and
F. L.
Lucas
, “
Long-standing problems in speech perception dissolve within an information-theoretic perspective
,”
Atten. Percept. Psychophys.
81
,
861
883
(
2019
).
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