According to Shattuck's(1994) his explanation of what could have happened to Victor's mind, is, as he compares Victor with the more recent case of Genie: “In recent years, scientists have worked out a theory that sounds like a refinement of Locke's and Condillac's tabula rasa or wax-tablet figure. Many experiments show that right-handed people learn language, mathematics, and logic with the left hemisphere of their brains, and do other kinds of thinking related to space, vision, and touch with the right hemisphere. Complex cross-circuitry connects the two sides. In left-handed individuals, the sides are reversed. This process of 'lateralization' takes place during our early years, perhaps by the age of six - atleast, before puberty. One theory
