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Navigating diverse environments is essential to an individual’s everyday life. The ability to recognize the best route to take, where obstacles are, the affordance of the obstacles, etc., can influence our functional interactions and navigation in an environment. Here, we examined how neural areas respond to scenes that vary in the degree of navigability. Participants (N= 11) were shown blocks of natural outdoor scenes defined by their functional (navigable vs non-navigable) and structural (open vs closed) properties: Open Navigable, Open Non-Navigable, Closed Navigable, & Closed Non-Navigable scenes. While participants performed a simple one-back task, we measured multivoxel pattern activity across regions of interests (the parahippocampal place area (PPA), the restrosplenial cortex (RSC), transverse occipital sulcus (TOS) and V1). We ran a linear classifier for these regions and analyzed the patterns of …