The larger the perplexity, the more non-local information will be retained in the dimensionality reduction result. Yes, I believe that this is a correct intuition. The way I think about perplexity parameter in t-SNE is that it sets the effective number of neighbours that each point is attracted to. More @Wikipedia
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