Dr Gael Gordon

Lecturer, Registered Optometrist

ROOM: A011
T: +44 141 331 8296
F: +44 (0)141 331 3387
E: ggo2@gcal.ac.uk

Qualifications

• PhD 1998, Glasgow Caledonian University, “VEP investigations of parallel visual pathway function in children and groups at risk.”
• Dip Optom, 1993
• BSc (Hons) Optometry, 1992. Glasgow Polytechnic.

Research Interests

Dr Gael Gordon studies various aspects of visual perception using psychophysical methods and electrophysiological techniques (VEPs). Current interests include:

1. effect of migraine on the visual cortex
2.  normal and abnormal visual development
3. texture and pattern perception

Teaching

• Communication Skills and Dispensing (Module leader)
• Communication, Law and Management (Module leader)
• Clinical Supervisor

Publications

Gordon GE, Heron G, Dutton GN (in press).  The Pulfrich Phenomenon in Optic Disc Drusen.  British Journal of Ophthalmology.

Loffler, G., Gordon, G.E., Wilkinson, F., Goren, D., & Wilson, H.R. (2005). Configural masking of faces: evidence for high-level interactions in face perception. Vision Res, 45 (17), 2287-2297.

Gordon, G.E., Chronicle E.P., Rolan, P. (2001) Why do we still not know whether refractive error causes headaches? Towards a framework for evidence based practice. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 21, 45-50.

Gordon, G.E., McCulloch D.L. (1999) A VEP investigation of parallel visual pathway development in primary school age children. Documenta Ophthalmologica, 99, 1-10.

Herbert A.M., Gordon G.E., McCulloch D.L. (1998) A passive event-related potential? International Journal of Psychophysiology, 28, 11-21.