One of the books that has had the biggest influence in my life is "The Art of Learning" by Josh Waitzkin, the child chess prodigy of "Searching for Bobby Fischer" fame.
The science underpinning the idea of learning, memory, recall and is based/described in neuroscience at at cellular level. So you can read papers. The coursework is really at a more abstracted level describing the processes as a model based on cited research. This is a high level course to improve learning, not STEM as such. Still very useful.
Chunking is described in more detail at Week2 https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/home/we... and books:
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Learning-Journey-Optimal-Performa...
[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Art-Learning-Journey-Performance...
I finished Linchpin a few weeks back and that was an amazing book https://www.amazon.com/Linchpin-Are-Indispensable-Seth-Godin...
Will It Fly is a great book I learning a lot of great marketing tricks from https://www.amazon.com/Will-Test-Business-Waste-Money/dp/099...
Chunking is described in more detail at Week2 https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/home/we... and books:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1101982853/ref=as_li_qf_sp...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0544456238/ref=as_li_qf_sp...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743277465/ref=as_li_qf_sp...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674729013/ref=as_li_qf_sp...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1579220541/ref=as_li_qf_sp...