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The First Annual International Science of Team Science (SciTS) Conference was held in Chicago, IL April 22–24, 2010. This article presents a summary of the Conference proceedings. Clin Trans Sci 2010; Volume 3: 263–266.

University of Pittsburgh, USASUMMARYThis experiment investigated the reactive effects of verbal reports on spatial mental models.Participants studied a map marked with a route and then either verbalized their memory for theroute or engaged in an unrelated verbal activity. Results showed that verbalization hinderedperformance on a measure of configural knowledge (straight-line distance estimations) but had nooverall influence on a measure of featural knowledge (route distance estimations). In addition,verbalization differentially interacted with verbal ability on the memory measures. The implicationsfor research on memory for spatial environments and the evidence for the existence of two distinctforms of memory representations (route versus configural) in spatial mental models are discussed.Copyright # 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.