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The human brain is a fascinating and enigmatic machine. It has the ability to monitor and control our basic life activities, to maintain our posture and direct our movements, to receive, store and interpret information about the world around us and likewise bears the capacity to produce this information accessible, whenever it is needed. In the domain of learning many students struggle to cope with the demands and requirements of the classroom learning, as a result being left behind by an educational system eventually. The field of cognitive neuropsychology has been flourishing in the late years, which studies how the brain and the nervous system affects cognition and the resultant behavior. The aim of contemporary cognitive neuropsychology is to articulate the functional architecture underlying normal human cognitive abilities, on the basis of patterns of performance over a variety of cognitive tasks involving subjects with varying degrees of brain-damage (Bub,1994). This article talks about the inevitable role of the brain in the learning procedure and also explicates the benefits of incorporating the findings from cognitive psychology into the educational sphere.