Para melhor compreensão de como as pessoas aprendem é importante entender o funcionamento do cérebro. Aqui  vai uma bibliografia sobre o assunto, extraída do curso  Aprendendo a aprender: ferramentas mentais poderosas para ajudá-lo a dominar assuntos difíceis. (Coursera)

• John Dunlosky, "Strengthening the Student Toolbox: Study Strategies to Boost Learning," American Educator, Fall, 2013. This excellent, comprehensive article is written by one of the top researchers in learning.
• John Hamilton. (October 17, 2013). "Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep." NPR All Things Considered.
• Mind Tools, "The Pomodoro Technique® Staying Focused Throughout the Day,"
• Anne Trafton. (July 21, 2014), "Try, try again? Study says no: Trying harder makes it more difficult to learn some aspects of language, neuroscientists find." Science Daily.
• Richard C. Mohs. "How Human Memory Works." How Stuff Works. Notice that what Dr. Mohs calls "short term memory" in his excellent article is almost the same as "working memory." Also, Dr. Mohs retains the "seven slots" theory of working memory--researchers still differ in their perspectives about this.
• James Morehead (June 19, 2012). "Stanford University’s Carol Dweck on the Growth Mindset and Education." OneDublin.org.
• Gretchen Reynolds. (April 30, 2014). "Want to be More Creative? Take a Walk." The New York Times.
• Brigid Schulte, (May 16, 2014). "For a more productive life, daydream." CNN Opinion.
• Robert Wright, (April 21, 2012). "How to Break the Procrastination Habit" The Atlantic. (Charles Duhigg's book,The Power of Habit, which is mentioned in the article, is also great!)
• Daniel J. Levitin, (August 9, 2014), "Hit the Reset Button in Your Brain," The New York Times.
• Charlie Tyson, (August 14, 2014), "Failure to Replicate," Inside Higher Ed. This is a very interesting overview article about the state of affairs in education research.
• Pam Harrison, (September 8, 2014), "Sleep on It: Sleep Consolidates Memory of New Motor Task," Medscape. Although this article deals with motor tasks, there are obvious implications related to the importance of sleep in consolidating other areas in learning.
• National Numeracy. A website by an independent charity that is devoted to helping every person in the UK to reach a level of numeracy skills that allow them to meet their full potential.

What is Learning?

• Michael D. Fox and Michael Greicius, Clinical applications of resting state functional connectivity , Front. Syst. Neurosci., 16 June 2010.
• Fox, M. D., Corbetta, M., Snyder, A. Z., Vincent, J. L., and Raichle, M. E. (2006a). Spontaneous neuronal activity distinguishes human dorsal and ventral attention systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A.103, 10046–10051.
• Fox M. D., Snyder A. Z., Vincent J. L., Corbetta M., Van Essen D. C., Raichle M. E. (2005). The human brain is intrinsically organized into dynamic, anticorrelated functional networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 102, 9673–967810.1073/pnas.0504136102.
• Guang Yang et al. Sleep promotes branch-specific formation of dendritic spines after learning, Science 344, 1173 (2014).

Introduction to Memory

• Baddeley, A., Eysenck, M. W., & Anderson, M. C. (2009). Memory. NY: Psychology Press.
• Carpenter, S. K., Cepeda, N. J., Rohrer, D., Kang, S. H. K., & Pashler, H. (2012). Using spacing to enhance diverse forms of learning: Review of recent research and implications for instruction. Educational Psychology Review, 24(3), 369-378. doi: 10.1007/s10648-012-9205-z
• Cowan, N. (2001). The magical number 4 in short-term memory: A reconsideration of mental storage capacity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(1), 87-114.
• Dudai, Y. (2004). The neurobiology of consolidations, or, how stable is the engram? Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 51-86.
• Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving students’ learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14(1), 4-58.
• Guida, A., Gobet, F., Tardieu, H., & Nicolas, S. (2012). How chunks, long-term working memory and templates offer a cognitive explanation for neuroimaging data on expertise acquisition: A two-stage framework. Brain and Cognition, 79(3), 221-244. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.01.010
• Rawson, K. A., & Dunlosky, J. (2011). Optimizing schedules of retrieval practice for durable and efficient learning: How much is enough? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140(3), 283.
• Rohrer, Doug, Robert F. Dedrick, and Kaleena Burgess. "The Benefit of Interleaved Mathematics Practice Is Not Limited to Superficially Similar Kinds of Problems." Psychonomic Bulletin & Review in press (2013).
• Rohrer, D., & Pashler, H. (2010). Recent research on human learning challenges conventional instructional strategies. Educational Researcher, 39(5), 406-412.

The Importance of Sleep in Learning

• Djonlagic, I., A. Rosenfeld, D. Shohamy, C. Myers, M. Gluck, and R. Stickgold. "Sleep Enhances Category Learning." Learning & Memory 16, no. 12 (Dec 2009): 751-5.
• Eichenbaum, H. "To Sleep, Perchance to Integrate." PNAS, 104, no. 18 (May 1 2007): 7317-8.
• Ellenbogen, J.M., P.T. Hu, J.D. Payne, D. Titone, and M.P. Walker. "Human Relational Memory Requires Time and Sleep." PNAS, 104, no. 18 (2007): 7723-28.
• Erlacher, Daniel, and Michael Schredl. "Practicing a Motor Task in a Lucid Dream Enhances Subsequent Performance: A Pilot Study." The Sport Psychologist, 24, no. 2 (2010): 157-67.
• Moss, R. The Secret History of Dreaming. Novato, CA: New World Library, 2008.
• Scullin, M. K., and M. A. McDaniel. "Remembering to Execute a Goal: Sleep on It!" Psychological Science 21, no. 7 (Jul 2010): 1028-35.
• Stickgold, Robert, and Jeffrey M Ellenbogen. "Quiet! Sleeping Brain at Work." Scientific American Mind 19, no. 4 (2008): 22-29.
• Wamsley, Erin J., Matthew Tucker, Jessica D. Payne, Joseph A. Benavides, and Robert Stickgold. "Dreaming of a Learning Task Is Associated with Enhanced Sleep-Dependent Memory Consolidation." Current Biology, 20, no. 9 (2010): 850-55.
• Xie, Lulu, Hongyi Kang, Qiwu Xu, Michael J Chen, Yonghong Liao, Meenakshisundaram Thiyagarajan, John O’Donnell, et al. "Sleep Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Adult Brain." Science, 342, no. 6156 (2013): 373-77.