Sara Jane Webb, Ph.D.

Professor, Seattle Children’s Research Institute

SFARI Investigator, SFARI Scientific Review Board Website

Sara Jane Webb is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist whose research focuses on the functional neurobiology and development of information processing in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental disorders, as well as in individuals with typical development.

Webb focuses on the use of electroencephalography, event-related potentials and other physiological measures to learn how children attend to visual images such as faces and how these processes contribute to social development and autism symptoms. She is currently working on projects developing biomarkers for (a) use in clinical trials, (b) understanding genotypic-phenotypic relationships and (c) predicting risk for ASD.

Funded Projects

Disrupted stimulus offset responses in autism spectrum disorder

Awarded: 2019
Award Type: Pilot

SFARI Funded Publications

Identifying phenotypic and physiological subgroups of preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder. Bazelmans T., Jones E., Ghods S., Corrigan S., Toth K., Charman T., Webb S. J.

A neurogenetic analysis of female autism. Jack A., Sullivan C.A.W., Aylward E., Bookheimer S., Dapretto M., Gaab N., Van Horn J.D., Eilbott J., Jacokes Z., Torgerson C.M., Bernier R., Geschwind D., McPartland J. C., Nelson C. A., Webb S. J., Pelphrey K., Gupta A., GENDAAR Consortium

Developmental trajectories of infants with multiplex family risk for autism: A Baby Siblings Research Consortium study. McDonald N.M., Senturk D., Scheffler A., Brian J.A., Carver L.J., Charman T., Chawarska K., Curtin S., Hertz-Piccioto I., Jones E., Klin A., Landa R., Messinger D.S., Ozonoff S., Stone W.L., Tager-Flusberg H., Webb S. J., Young G., Zwaigenbaum L., Spurling Jeste S.