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To investigate, we leveraged the systematic variation with which some images are better remembered than others, image memorability, to compare neural responses in inferotemporal cortex (ITC) and the hippocampus (HC) as macaque monkeys performed a single-exposure visual familiarity task. We found evidence for a two-stage algorithmic transformation from visual representations to familiarity, including a previously undescribed computational transformation of familiarity in the medial temporal lobe. At the first stage, more memorable images elicited more vigorous ITC firing-rate responses and stronger ITC familiarity signals (reflected as repetition suppression). This led to a counterintuitive intermingling of familiarity and memorability signals in ITC, but a representation that could be read out by a linear decoder. 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